People who have high prestige also have high incomes and high power,

通常威望高的人收入与权力也会较高
and let's say somebody who is sweeping the floor- right?

然而对于那些打扫地面的清洁人员
---will have very low prestige,

他们不仅没有什么威望
very low income and no power at all. Right?

同时收入也很低更谈不上什么权力了
So that is a useful way

因此该方法有效地
how to stratify society for upper-upper class to lower-lower class.

将社会从上上层到下下层逐层区分
That is the way how Weber usually has been used.

此种方式也正是韦伯所采用的分层标准
Well I will challenge this.

然而我却想挑战一下这个标准
I don't think I'm the only one who does challenges.

况且我也不是唯一一个提出挑战的人
Anthony Giddens, I think, gets very close to what I am describing,

安东尼·吉登斯就与我的想法十分接近
though probably he doesn't stick his neck out as much as I do.

尽管他没有向我这样激进
My fundamental argument is that

我的基本论点是