SOCI 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Protestant Work Ethic, Social Change, Fatalism
8 Apr 2019
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Ideas can also be causes of possible social change. Economic activity: followers of calvinism believed in predestination: predestination. Whether saved or not was fated by god at conception and thre is nothing we can alter. Accepting what is already confirmed: external signs of salvation: the most important thing is to be saved. Believers want to convince themselves that they are safe by looking at external signs: external signs of salvation. Accumulation of wealth could be sinful: protestant ethic. The causes are going to be casual not deterministic. Webers theory is exogenous; everything happen to come together at a same time: global stratification. Global inequality = systematic differences that exist among countries: distribution of world income, distribution of world wealth. Women with few opportunities typically have many children. Raising living standards in much of the world depends on improving the social standing of women: concept of society, spatial- urban ecology, linear dev. Spatial proximity particular types: high degree of intimacy.
