The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Max Weber
- First Published: 1904
- Type of Work: Sociology
- Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy, Sociology
- Subjects: Ideology, United States or Americans, Economics, Ethics, Capitalism, Western Europe or western Europeans, Protestantism or Protestant churches
Form and Content
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, without a doubt the most widely recognized work by the preeminent German sociologist Max Weber, takes the form of a book-length scholarly essay published in two parts—of roughly one hundred pages each—titled “Das Problem” (the problem) and “Die Berufsethik des asketischen Protestantismus” (the ethic of the calling in Protestant asceticism). Each part is further divided into a number of subparts (or sections) and is accompanied by an extensive body of notes—84 for part 1 and 309 for...
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