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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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• Translator's Preface(p. ix)
• Preface to New Edition(p. xiii)
• Foreword(p. 1)
• Author's Introduction(p. 13)
• The Problem
• Chapter I. Religious Affiliation and Social Stratification(p. 35)
• Chapter II. The Spirit of Capitalism(p. 47)
• Chapter III. Luther's Conception of the Calling. Task of the Investigation(p. 79)
• Part II The Practical Ethics of the Ascetic Branches of Protestantism
• Chapter IV. The Religious Foundations of Worldly Asceticism(p. 95)
• A. Calvinism(p. 98)
• B. Pietism(p. 128)
• C. Methodism(p. 139)
• D. The Baptist Sects(p. 144)
• Chapter V. Asceticism and the Spirit of Capitalism(p. 155)
• Notes(p. 185)
• Index(p. 285)