POL101Y1 Lecture : How the West Got Rich
15 Feb 2011
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weber wasn"t the first to do this: in fact most social theorists were responding to. published two long articles in 1904 and 1905. opens it with a statistical fact: business leaders and owners of capital, as well as the higher grades of skilled labour ,and even more the higher technically and commercially trained personnel of modern enterprises, are overwhelmingly protestant. not merely a contemporary fact but nan historical fact: tracing the association back, it can be shown that some of the early centers of capitalist development in the early part of the 16th century were strongly protestant. Break with economic traditionalism produced a sloughing off of tradition and of religious institutions. weber wants to know what the relation between religion and economic development is www. notesolution. com. but this interpretation (that religious change in the 16th century from catholic to. Protestantism spurs economic advancement) does not stand up to scrutiny.
