The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of CapitalismFor the first time in 70 years, a new translation of Max Weber's classic The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism --one of the seminal works in sociology-- published in September 2001. Translator Stephen Kalberg is an internationally acclaimed Weberian scholar, and in this new translation he offers a precise and nuanced rendering that captures both Weber's style and the unusual subtlety of his descriptions and causal arguments. Weber's original italicization, highlighting major themes, has been restored, and Kalberg has standardized Weber's terminology to better facilitate understanding of the various twists and turns in his complex lines of reasoning. Weber's compelling work remains influential for these reasons: it explores the continuing debate regarding the origins and legacy of modem capitalism in the West; it helps the reader understand today's global economic development; and it plumbs the deep cultural forces that affect contemporary work life and the workplace in the United States and Europe. This new edition/translation also includes a glossary; Weber's 1906 essay, "The Protestant Sects and the Spirit of Capitalism"; and Weber's masterful prefatory remarks to his Collected Essays in the Sociology of Religion, in which he defines the uniqueness of Western societies and asks what "ideas and interests" combined to create modem Western rationalism |
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... entire landscape of Western history. As difficult as it may be for us to imagine today, his readers were quite capable of tracing the ebb and flow of Western civilization's unfolding since the ancient Greeks. All had attended elite ...
... entire landscape of Western history. As difficult as it may be for us to imagine today, his readers were quite capable of tracing the ebb and flow of Western civilization's unfolding since the ancient Greeks. All had attended elite ...
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... entire Roxbury staff mobilized behind this book in a extraordinarily impressive fashion. I am especially grateful to Roxbury's president, Claude Teweles, for having the vision to see the importance of this new translation and the ...
... entire Roxbury staff mobilized behind this book in a extraordinarily impressive fashion. I am especially grateful to Roxbury's president, Claude Teweles, for having the vision to see the importance of this new translation and the ...
Page xvii
... entire analysis in PE. Capitalism, as involving the exchange of goods and calculations of profit and loss balances in terms of money, has existed in civilizations in all corners of the globe, from ancient times to the present. The ...
... entire analysis in PE. Capitalism, as involving the exchange of goods and calculations of profit and loss balances in terms of money, has existed in civilizations in all corners of the globe, from ancient times to the present. The ...
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... entire workforce according to the rules of productive and efficient management, reinvested profits in their companies, and saw themselves as engaged in harsh, competitive struggles, economic traditionalism implied a more comfortable and ...
... entire workforce according to the rules of productive and efficient management, reinvested profits in their companies, and saw themselves as engaged in harsh, competitive struggles, economic traditionalism implied a more comfortable and ...
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... entire lives toward work and material success. Puritanism gave birth to a “Protestant ethic.” Weber's explanation of how this took place can best be examined by scrutiny of two themes: (1) the strict organization by believers of their ...
... entire lives toward work and material success. Puritanism gave birth to a “Protestant ethic.” Weber's explanation of how this took place can best be examined by scrutiny of two themes: (1) the strict organization by believers of their ...
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