This is what Alan Greenspan is all about. Sophisticated non-market ways of managing interest rates. Which type of class struggle becomes key is dependent on the legal order, and how power is exercised legitimately. See final paragraph of Section 4, p. 186. According to Weber, in contrast to classes, status groups are communities.
People recognize each other as belonging to the same group.
They are not economically determined, and stand in sharp opposition to the pretensions of sheer property. Both propertied and propertyless people can belong to the same status groups, and make social demands on each other in this context. Ethnic group membership is a status honor, not class distinction, although the two may be related. National citizenship, membership in a clan, caste, ascribed racial category, ability to speak a language, etc. are some of the status distinctions we will discuss in this class. Membership in the international music subculture is a status honor.