the classes below…Class type, relations with class fellows, power over outward resources adapted to the class situation, and so on". In capitalist society movement between classes is a possibility. Hence the use of the term "The American Dream" to show the ability of people to ascend to a higher class through hard work and ingenuity. "Class composition is forever changing, to the point where there may be a completely new set of families". Weber saw four classes: the propertied class, the non-propertied class, the petit bourgeoisie and the manual labourer class. References Bibliography Further reading Waters, Tony, and Dagmar Waters (2010). "The New Zeppelin University Translation of Weber's 'Classes, Stände, Parties'" (2010) 10 Journal of Classical Sociology 153. Weber, Max (1964). The Theory of Social and Economic Organization, ed. Talcott Parsons. New York: Free P. Weber, Max (1978). Economy and Society: an Outline of Interpretive Sociology [trans. of 1964 edn of Weber 1922], ed. Guenther Roth and Claus Wittich. Berkeley: U. California P. Weber, Max (2015). "The Distribution of Power with the Gemeinschaft: Classes, Stände, Parties", trans. Dagmar Waters, Tony Waters editors and translators, in Weber's Rationalism and Modern Society: New Translations on Politics, Bureaucracy and Social Stratification." New York: Palgrave MacMillan. Text of 2015 translation of Classes, Staende, Parties by Max Weber. 1922 introductions Max Weber Sociological theories Social status Social stratification