POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Logical Consequence, Main Source, Switchman
21 Jan 2013
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The west got rich because they had a military advantage which allowed them to steal. Problems with the theory: generalizes as europeans bad, non- It can"t just be that the west was militarily superior. One of the first militarily superior countries was spain but they are not one of the most powerful countries in the world. Weather: warming up of europe after 15th century. Weber wasn"t the first to do this: in fact most social theorists were responding to karl marx. Published as two long articles in 1904 and 1905. Opens it with a statistical fact: business leaders and owners of capital. Not merely a contemporary fact but a 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. Breaks with economic traditionalism produced a sloughing off tradition and of religious institution.
