The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism - Max Weber
| Автор: | Max Weber |
| Издательство: | Ingram |
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| Жанр произведения: | Историческая литература |
| Год издания: | 0 |
| isbn: | 9780486122373 |
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.