Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject Sociology - Religion, grade: 1,7, University of Tubingen (Institut fur Soziologie), course: Social Stratification, language: English, abstract: Scholars have been investigating the relationship between religion and socioeconomic status ever since Weber's work on the economic consequences of the Protestant work ethic. However, most modern day social stratification researchers focus on the three classic" forms of inequality - race, class and gender - and religion as a factor, which influences the social and economical chances of an individual is...