Among the critical issues that are used to explain how class inequalities in social classes are produced include capital, assets, and the resources. Several questions give rise as to the proper definition of these social classes - who among the many segments or groups of people comprise a particular class? How are people being categorized, as to whether they are certain attributes such as occupation, position, skills, performance, seniority, etc.? There are some social class indicators such as societal level relations that exist between classes and are based on more fundamental property relations such as ownership and control of capital. Upon looking into this perspective, it is but true that there exist some mechanisms that produce class inequalities.
             In social classes, theoretical disputes arise as to the efficacy of understanding the systems of economic inequality. The people who comprise a class, most often are not aware on how to locate themselves within a social structure because they are being dominated by the higher authority. Some of the stratification measures used is based on incremental changes in skill, income, and prestige across a social scale. Therefore, a thorough study of the difference between two social class theories is vital – the distributional theory and the relational theory.
             Distributional theory is commonly used in functional sociology. This theory covers up the actual social classes behind income and follows a certain distribution standard. It is not centered on personal interactions but on social-structural processes. Considering the distributional rule by analogy to the marginal productivity principle in economics, "the fairness of earnings is estimated according to criteria like merit and need affecting actors' judgment of perceived equity (Jasso and Rossi, 1977). Thus, the theory is being subjectively perceived as legitimate though it is not completely comprehensive.
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