The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism - Brossura

Weber, Max

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ISBN 10: 048642703X ISBN 13: 9780486427034

Casa editrice: Dover Pubns, 2003

Riassunto

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.

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TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE PREFACE TO NEW EDITION FOREWARD AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION THE PROBLEM CHAPTER I. RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION AND SOCIAL STRATIFICATION II. THE SPIRIT OF CAPITALISM III. "LUTHER'S CONCEPTION OF THE CALLING, TASK OF THE INVESTIGATION" PART II THE PRACTICAL ETHICS OF THE ASCETIC BRANCHES OF PROTESTANTISM IV. THE RELIGIOUS FOUNDATIONS OF WORDLY ASCETICISM A. Calvinism B. Pietism C. Methodism D. The Baptist Sects V. ASCETICISM AND THE SPIRIT OF CAPITALISM NOTES INDEX

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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.

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• Editore: Dover Pubns
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 048642703X
• ISBN 13: 9780486427034
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 292