POL101Y1 Lecture : POL101 Lecture #3 W
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Weather: warming up of europe after the 15th century. Problem: why didn t warm areas get rich first? (why not hawaii?) Spain and portugal should be the richest country not britain. Weber wasn t the first to do this: in fact most social theorists were responding to karl. There was a relationship that those parts of europe that became rich were protestants. Opens it with a statistical fact business leaders and owners of capital . Not merely a contemporary fact but an 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 disagrees) But this interpretation does not stand out to scrutiny. Reformation not an escape from controls of the church.
