ANTH 209 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Iron Cage, Protestant Reformation, Group Cohesiveness

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Social cohesion and consciousness are intertwined, create religion. Weber: the protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism: religion is entangled with economics, central claim: religious forces (in addition to economic) paved the way for modern day capitalism. Iron cage of accumulation: commitment to work and ethos contributed to modern economic order. Iron cage: very pervasive, traps you, have to do to survive capitalism: working for salvation (have no other choice, light cloak: choosing to do something, can take off the cloak. Protestant and capitalism: indirectly influenced by the former"s strong work ethic which coincides with the latter"s. Is and isn"t a universalist: thinks all humans are reasonable and rational, but rationality isn"t the same everywhere: witchcraft is no more superstitious than christianity. Conclusion about rationality: wc follows rules of cause and effect and explains: coincidence: something that has no reason to happen at that time, co-incidence: happens at same time. Practices are a way of dealing with suffering.

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