While at times status and class groupings may be in conflict, at others their members may accept quite stable patterns of subordination and superordination. With this dual classification of social stratification, Weber lays the foundation for understanding pluralistic forms of social conflict in modern society and helps explain why only in rare cases are such societies polarized into opposing camps of the "haves" and the "have-nots". wealthy". It did much to explain why Marx's exclusively class-centered scheme failed to correctly predict the shape of future things in modern pluralistic societies. (School of Social Sciences ,