POL SCI 51A Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Umber, Puritans, Transubstantiation
25 Mar 2016
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Weather: warming up of europe ater 15th century: problem: why didn"t warm areas get rich irst? (hawaii) Max weber: german sociologist; deeply neuroic but a true intellectual; spoke muliple languages, he noices a correlaive relaionship between protestanism and capitalism those parts in europe that become rich, are mostly protestant. This is not valid because protestants were much more regulated than. Especially renounced in calvinism: transubstaniaion; in catholicism the priest has the power to intercede to god for you. It takes a speciic way of looking at the world to work more hours if your geing paid more: capitalism: accumulate money in order to live a sober life of accumulaion. In protestanism they really believed that your posiion was your calling, and that this was your duty and that it was extremely important to others. This will assure the status of your soul: later protestant sects that make up what weber calls asceic protestanism do the really heavy liting.
