The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

Business & Money

Max, Weber

Economics

Routledge

Roscher and Knies: The Logical Problems of Historical Economics

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Free Press

Paperback. Sociology. Urban studies.

The City

The Methodology Of The Social Sciences

Compares and contrasts the social and economic development of Chinese and Western societies and demonstrates the way in which Confucian and Taoist religious values inhibited the development of a capitalist economy in China. Bibliogs

The Religion of China

Religion & Spirituality

Religious Studies

Theory of Social and Economic Organization

Max Weber on capitalism, bureaucracy, and religion: A selection of texts

George Allen Unwin

This brilliant study opposes the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and its view that change takes place through the conflict of opposites. Instead, Weber relates the rise of a capitalist economy to the Puritan determination to work out anxiety over salvation or damnation by performing good deeds - an effort that ultimately encouraged capitalism.

Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (U.Books)

Allen& Unwin

A brilliant book which studies the psychological conditions which made possible the development of capitalist civilization. The book analyzes the connection between the spread of Calvinism and a new attitude toward the pursuit of wealth in post-Reformation Europe and England, and attitude which permitted, encouraged–even sanctified–the human quest for prosperity.

ANTHONY GIDDENS

Talcott Parsons

THE PROTESTANT ETHIC AND THE SPIRIT OF CAPITALISM is considered a founding text in economic capitalism, economic sociology and sociology in general.In the book, Weber wrote that capitalism in Europe evolved when the Protestant ethic influenced large numbers of people to engage in work in the secular world, developing their own enterprises and engaging in trade and the accumulation of wealth for investment. In other words, the Protestant work ethic was a force behind a mass action that influenced the development of capitalism.This book is not a detailed study of Protestantism but rather an introduction into Weber's studies of interaction between moral ideas and economics. He argues convincingly about the American ethics and ideas that have so positively influenced the development of capitalistic financial prosperity, and thereby, both the personal and common good.

Sociology

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