RLG210Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Middle Ages, Historical Sociology, Exotic Birds
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Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism its not protestantism in the rise of capitalism, rather a conjecture where 2 things that have separate origins come together to create and explosive Weber believes the rise of capitalism was the most dramatic event in human history because it transformed the relationship between humans and nature. He group that originated capitalism was able to use that to dominate the rest of the world. the capitalist economy put the humanity on a different development. Wants to address capitalism on several different angles remember what the purpose of the thesis is in terms of not being a cause of protestant causes capitalism and the main stages* Chapter 1 showed protestantism in europe was connected with the most prosperous advanced parts of the europe and catholic countries were lagging. Protestantism though it being with religious interests with luther, it has a cultural spill over effect. It creates different types of people and social psychologies.
