2010 Reprint of 1930 First English edition.Considered a founding
text in economic sociology and sociology in general, Weber's book
was translated into English for the first time by Talcott Parsons
and appeared in 1930. We reprint this 1930 Edition. Weber believed
that capitalism in northern Europe evolved when the Protestant
(particularly Calvinist) ethic influenced large numbers of people
to engage in work in the secular world, developing their own
enterprises and engaging in trade and the accumulation of wealth
for investment. In other words, the Protestant ethic was a force
behind an unplanned and uncoordinated mass action that influenced
the development of capitalism. This idea is also known as "the
Weber thesis." Weber, however, rejected deterministic approaches,
and presented the Protestant Ethic as merely one in a number of
'elective affinities' leading toward capitalist modernity. Weber's
term Protestant work ethic has become very widely known. The work
relates significantly to the cultural "rationalization" and
so-called "disenchantment" which Weber associated with the modern
West.
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