POL101Y1 Quiz: Protestant Ethic

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Weber, the protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism. Chapter 1 religious affiliation and social stratification. According to the occupational statistics of countries of mixed religious composition, business leaders and owners, and high skilled laborers are protestant: crosses lines of nationality. Richer districts tended to convert to protestantism. Suggests that their environment has determined the choice of occupation. Protestants have shown a much stronger tendency to develop economic rationalism than catholics have. Task is to investigate the religions and see what might have caused this behavior. One explanation that the catholics are more otherworldly and ascetic than. Protestants, and are therefore indifferent to material gain: however, this does not fit the facts of today, or the past, and such generalities are not useful. Thus, if there is any relationship between the ascetic protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism, it will have to be found in purely religious characteristics.

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