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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... sense of foreboding. Fully uncharted waters seemed ahead. Urbanization,4 bureaucratization, secularization, and a massive expansion of capitalism took place on such a vast scale that a clear continuity between past and present appeared ...
... sense of foreboding. Fully uncharted waters seemed ahead. Urbanization,4 bureaucratization, secularization, and a massive expansion of capitalism took place on such a vast scale that a clear continuity between past and present appeared ...
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... sense of ethical responsibility for one's actions would not be cultivated and the autonomy of individuals would gradually fade. Finally, without ethical values how could compassion, charity, and the ethos of brotherhood survive (see ...
... sense of ethical responsibility for one's actions would not be cultivated and the autonomy of individuals would gradually fade. Finally, without ethical values how could compassion, charity, and the ethos of brotherhood survive (see ...
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... was respected throughout the community and believed to be of good character. Work played a central role in the formulation even of a person's sense of digone's life resulted, Weber contends, from an array of modern historical xviii.
... was respected throughout the community and believed to be of good character. Work played a central role in the formulation even of a person's sense of digone's life resulted, Weber contends, from an array of modern historical xviii.
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Max Weber Stephen Kalberg. sense of increasing conceptual clarity and the refinement of the content of the law based upon a fundamental written source, such as a constitution) reached its highest point in the Roman law of later antiquity ...
Max Weber Stephen Kalberg. sense of increasing conceptual clarity and the refinement of the content of the law based upon a fundamental written source, such as a constitution) reached its highest point in the Roman law of later antiquity ...
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... sense of moral unworthiness that follows from the doctrine of predestination. Finally, restless work in a calling enhances the self-confidence that enables the faithful to consider themselves among the chosen (pp. 65—66). meaningfulness ...
... sense of moral unworthiness that follows from the doctrine of predestination. Finally, restless work in a calling enhances the self-confidence that enables the faithful to consider themselves among the chosen (pp. 65—66). meaningfulness ...
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