POL101Y1 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Switchman
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Protestantism & capitalism (protestantism ideology of capitalists because it was. Weber was not the first to do this: in fact most social theorists were responding to. Published as two long articles in 1904 & 1905. Opens it with a statistical fact: business leaders Not merely a contemporary fact but a historical fact: tracing the association back, it can be shown that some of the early centers of capitalist development were protestant. But this interpretation does not stand up to scrutiny. Reformation not an escape from controls of the church. It involved a much higher degree of regulation of behaviour than that which was. Protestantism adopts a stringent attitude towards relaxation & enjoyment . Weber"s originality is in arguing that usually people caught up with economic. Weber not the first to see the correlation between capitalism & protestantism, But protestantism did not relax control of church over day to day activities but www. notesolution. com.
