Abstract
The term "class? is considered a sociological concept. We must remember that our contemporary ideas of sociology and economics were not those of Marshall or any other social scientist who took part in the constitution of the different disciplines about a hundred years ago. Anyone who has encountered classical social sciences, like Marshall, Weber, or Schumpeter realizes that a narrow categorization of their works as "sociology" or "economics" would be unbalanced or even unjust. A reading of classical thinkers must first of all take the origins of its own interpretation into account (Gadamer 1990). In practice, it means that we try to understand and make use of Alfred Marshall's ideas in a process of interpretation.
