The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

Business & Money

Max, Weber

Economics

Routledge

Paperback. Sociology. Urban studies.

The City

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Free Press

The Methodology Of The Social Sciences

在《中国的宗教:儒教与道教》一书中，韦伯长篇大论地分析了中国的国家、法律、城市、行会、士人阶层、正统礼教、异端信仰等等，无非是想借此构筑出：中国人想的是什么（例如：传统主义的价值取向、巫术性的世界图像）、做出的是什么（例如：家产制政体、家族社会、家族经济组合），以及所想与所做的之间的辩证关系。其中，主导此一辩证关系之进行的儒教官绅知识阶层，于韦伯所构筑的传统中国历史舞台上，展现出使得中国整体文明进展之与西方大相径庭的坚实活力。\n由于所要解决的问题不同，韦伯的研究虽然仍属历史范畴，其途径却与一般史学者惯常采用的稍有出入。简言之，韦伯较注重的是贯穿于整个文明中一些较为不变的现象。因此，尽管王朝屡屡更迭，官制也代代有差，在韦伯看来，自秦始皇统一中国、建立家产制支配后，中国基本上就是个家产官僚制国家，具有家产官僚制的一般特性（而置诸如君权相权消长等问题不谈）。

The Religion of China; Confucianism and Taoism

Religion & Spirituality

MacMillan Publishing Company

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

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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