| Title | : | The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Max Weber |
| Release | : | 2012-04-19 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | World History, Books, History, Business & Personal Finance, Economics |
| Size | : | 1280688 |
| The Protestant ethic — a moral code stressing hard work, rigorous self-discipline, and the organization of one's life in the service of God — was made famous by sociologist and political economist Max Weber. In this brilliant study (his best-known and most controversial), he opposes the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and its view that change takes place through "the struggle of opposites." Instead, he 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 discouraged belief in predestination and encouraged capitalism. Weber's classic study has long been required reading in college and advanced high school social studies classrooms. |
