SOC 3106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Protestant Work Ethic, Aestheticism, Times New Roman

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3106
• Professor: Andreas Buss

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Distinction between capitalism ad: capitalism is the exchange of goods and calculation of profit and loss (in terms of money) You also have to live yourself, and take 1 or 2 cows a year and some wheat for yourself. Individual participant is a positioned in a capitalist/economic order governed by a state. Implies that the state monopolizes the making of money: state is a state of law with clearly established roles, modern-western, double-entry accounting - inventing in the west during the middle. Weber rejected: this cannot produce the spirit of capitalism, ex. If you take catholicism, you can say that it never linked the important question ("how am i going to be saved?" to economic activity. In catholicism, one is saved if one confesses one"s sins. If you don"t live in accordance to commandments, it would indicate insufficient faith, which would assume that you are not chosen by god (no sacrament,