The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

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ISBN: 9780486427034
author: Max Weber / Michael D. Coe
translator: Talcott Parsons
other title: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Dover Value Editions)
publishing house: Dover Publications
publication date: 2003 -4
language: English
price: USD 9.95
number of pages: 320

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Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus

Max Weber / Michael D. Coe    Talcott Parsons

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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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