Max Weber (Ethics (Ready Reference series))
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Weber is considered to be one of the founders of modern social science. His intellectual achievement reflected extraordinary breadth, including original studies of economy and law, social structure, comparative civilizations, and methods of the social sciences. He is best known for The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, in which he analyzed human motives—that is, beliefs and values determining action—in the development of capitalism and concluded that certain religious beliefs could be linked to economic trends. The Calvinist doctrine of...
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