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The Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism / Max Weber ; translated by Talcott Parsons ; with a foreword by R.H. Tawney.

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Original language: German Publisher: Mineola, N.Y. Dover Publications, 2003Description: xvii, 292 p. 21 cmISBN:
  • 048642703X
Uniform titles:
  • Protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus. Engelska
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.6 21
LOC classification:
  • BR115.C3
Other classification:
  • C:oa
  • Qaabm
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Originally published: New York : Scribner, 1958. With new foreword.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • 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)