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In his work, "The Distribution of Power Within the Political Community: Class, Status, Party", Max Weber gives a very detailed description of how society works within its classes, status groups and parties. All communities are arranged in a way where goods from different type, tangible and intangible, symbolic and material are distributed. Thus, such distribution is always unequal and necessarily involves power. As Weber explains, " 'classes', 'status groups', and 'parties' are phenomena of the distribution …

…explains, " 'classes', 'status groups', and 'parties' are phenomena of the distribution of power within a community" (Webber, 207). Given this information we can easily provide an answer to the question why class conflict does not have a dominant function in the politics of advanced industrial societies. The distribution of power depicts a stable backbone for the support and provision of the classes, thus they seize to create conflicts, but establish social mobility among the classes instead.