 social order. In this session, we are going to discuss the topic of social order. Just like the social order of Karl Marx, Max Weber has also made this stratification on the same lines but limiting his focus on modern industrialist societies of France, Great Britain and Germany because Weber's social order also has its social stratification, social organization and social system. Social stratification as per introduced by Max Weber is made under two lines known as social classes and status groups. In the basic social order of Max Weber, the definition of social stratification or class system or the basis of the concept is basically from two perspectives. One is that Max Weber has mentioned social classes and the other is highlighted by some status groups. Social classes are on the basis of property and commercial ones. So the basic difference between the social classes and status groups is that of classes are stratified on the basis of their relation to the production and acquisition of goods. While the status classes refer to those consumer classes who can acquire various varieties of goods because it is not necessary for those who have resources, who have property, whose range includes all the things on which the status is determined. So social organizations, another concept under the concept of social order given by Max Weber, main characteristics of rational social organization is bureaucracy and according to Weber's scheme that has some specific characteristics. Now in the social organization, since Weber has the most important one, he is bureaucracy and because of that he has some particular characteristics. And the basis of these characteristics is that distinctive social institution that has a different status. And definitely there are various social institutions, some can be on the basis of religion, some can be on the basis of the social, political and economic systems, every system has its own particular institution. But the specialized social institutions are very important because they fulfill human needs and if they have skills or qualifications, then they are definitely different from the rest. Large scale organizations, modern rationality can be seen as the large scale organizations because nowadays, due to the larger population of the states, institutions have to manage, they have to control the whole population. Now when society has to control everyone or manage, then the importance of these institutions and their rationality also changes. So specialized tasks, now there are some specialties in the scope of the resources. What used to happen in the olden times, their nature was different. And nowadays, in the modern time period, the job of institutions, their tasks are different and their responsibilities are higher. Then the modern institutions have some distinctive features like they are personally disciplined institutions because they have to follow some certain rules and regulations, then awareness of time, definitely all the institutions and the people, those are linked with these institutions, they must be having awareness regarding the element of time. Then technical competence. Now this is the important point of technical competence that in the olden times or in today's times, the people who have today's technology, tomorrow more modernized technology will be there. So if survival is there, and Max Weber has also given this very clearly in his philosophy, that if people have technical competency, then definitely they will have the skill and they will try to match the requirements. So the impersonality in the rational societies, the technical, with the technical competence that actually becomes the impersonal issues, so the social system of Max Weber that is basically can be categorized on the basis of social classes, as well as on the basis of status groups. So the social stratification that is again can be explained on the basis of social honor and the material rewards the people are enjoying.