CÂTEVA VIZIUNI TEORETIZATE PRIVIND CONCEPTUL NOŢIUNI DE CLASĂ SAU STARE SOCIALĂ

Summary. In the following article, the author, having as his research theme the privileged social categories of the population of Bessarabia – the boyars, mazils, ruptaș, rutes etc., discusses the problem of understanding the theorized concept of class, status or social estate, examines the concepts of the main theorists, Karl Marx and Max Weber, who had a direct influence on the development of social class theory and had a direct impact on the subsequent philosophical, historical and sociological thinking, as well as the comparative analysis of the two definitions/schools dominant in historiography – American and French, carried out by French philosopher, sociologist and political scientist Raymond Aron. The author finds that by understanding the theorized concept of these notions, it will be much easier to determine the social status of the privileged in Bessarabia – the boyars, mazils, ruptaş, rutes etc. in the first half of the 19th century.Key words: Bessarabia, class, social status, social structure, privileged