According to Weber how do class, status and power interact to produce and sustain social inequality ? (Answer in 350 words)

- According to Weber how do class, status and power interact to produce and sustain social inequality ? (Answer in 350 words)
Introduction
Weber's answer to Marx is that inequality is generated in three orders at once, and survives because a defeat in one can be repaired from the others.

Body

1. What each of the three is: Class is position in the market. A class situation is the typical chance of supplying goods, gaining a living and finding inner satisfaction, determined by property and by marketable skill; classes are categories of people in like situations, not communities. Status is the effective claim to social honour, expressed in a style of life and enforced by restriction on whom one may eat with and marry; status groups are communities. Party belongs to the sphere of power, being deliberate association aimed at influencing communal action towards chosen ends. The three belong to the economic, social and political orders respectively.
2. How they interact and cut across each other: They correlate strongly without collapsing into one another, and the gap between them is where Weber's analysis lives. Property usually converts into honour over a generation, as the newly rich are admitted once their manner of living is acquired. Honour can defy wealth: the impoverished aristocrat outranks the merchant, and in India a landless Brahmin outranks a prosperous Shudra in ritual terms. Parties recruit from classes and status groups and can confer both. Weber adds that status stratification is salient when the economic order is stable, while class comes to the fore when markets are in flux.
3. How the interaction produces inequality: Through conversion. Market position funds a style of life, the style of life secures honour, honour justifies closure over jobs and marriage, and organised power writes the rules under which markets and closure operate. Each order thus supplies what another lacks, and disadvantage compounds because a person low in all three has no order from which to draw.
4. How it sustains inequality over time: Social closure is the mechanism: monopolisation of credentials, endogamy and codes of honour that make the arrangement appear deserved rather than imposed. Because the three are separable, a challenge to one is absorbed by the rest — land reform can leave ritual status untouched, and reservation can raise class position without conferring honour, as Beteille's Sripuram found status, class and power concentrated but no longer aligned.

Conclusion
Weber's scheme explains the durability that a single-dimension account cannot: an inequality attacked on one front retreats to another.