Based on new empirical data and theoretical modeling, a new concept of M. Weber's triad “power-wealth-prestige” is proposed. The triad exhausts the fundamental goods that encourage people to engage in social activity. The three types of goods generate each other and correspond to a one-dimensional or almost one-dimensional social space, where the unit of measurement is the flow of goods or the human capital of lower-status participants. The hierarchy of wealth managers with equally powerful statuses is the most probable and is a natural attractor of the two extreme hierarchies — administrative power and prestige. Both real hierarchy of prestige and real hierarchy of power are superpositions, respectively of ideal hierarchy of prestige and the hierarchy of wealth and ideal hierarchy of power and the hierarchy of wealth. The coefficients in both superpositions are the same and make sense of the loyalty of the population to the state interests. Real hierarchies of prestige and power coincide with ideal ones when loyalty reaches its maximum.
Source: Muller, Natalia V.; Ojovan, Michael I.; Shabanov, Victor L.; Loshchinin, Mikhail B. (2026). Superpositions in Weber’s Discrete Triad. European Researcher. Series A. 17(1): 10-40.
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