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Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism  
Author: Max Weber
ISBN: 048642703X
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
   Book Review
Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

FROM THE PUBLISHER

This brilliant study--the author's best-known and most controversial work--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 discouraged belief in predestination and encouraged capitalism. Weber's classic has long been required reading in college and advanced high school social studies classrooms.

SYNOPSIS

In what is arguably one of the most famous and influential works of sociology and is certainly Weber's most famous, he argued that Calvinist asceticism helped sow the seeds of capitalism by promoting selfless labor and restricting material consumption. This edition is an unabridged republication of the 1958 English translation published by Charles Scribner's Sons. Cited in Books for College Libraries, 3rd ed. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

FROM THE CRITICS

Times Higher Education Supplement

Max Weber is the one undisputed canonical figure in contemporary sociology.

Booknews

Arguing that classic works should be translated every generation, and that the essay here was last translated into English some 70 years ago, Kalberg (sociology, Boston U.) strives to make the text accessible to undergraduates and general readers and to retain the integrity of the work with a close-to-the-text translation. In addition to the essay itself, which was published in a two parts in a social science journal in 1904-05, he has included two related documents by Weber (1864-1920). Cited in . Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

     



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