SOCY 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Homo Economicus, Social History, Stoicism
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Protestantism and capitalism: comparing marx and weber on the basis of the protestant ethic, weber establishes his own position, biography, history, social structure. W9 socy 122 - the protestant ethic and the spirit of. The protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism. The protestant ethic: two methodological extremes in german social thought, historical school vs. In light of the immense confusion of the reciprocal influences among the material foundations, the forms of social and political organizations, and the various spiritual streams of the reformation epoch, we can only proceed in the following manner. Today(cid:495)s themes: the intellectual context for weber(cid:495)s essay on protestantism, the argument weber presents on the (cid:498)elective affinity(cid:499) between ascetic, rejects economic determinism ideas and meaning matter (religious ideas) Doing so will allow us, whenever possible, to illuminate the type of influence that the religious movement, as a consequence of these elective affinities, had upon the development of economic culture.