POL101Y1 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Switchman, Main Source, Delayed Gratification
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Max weber: what was it about northwest part of europe that made it unique, protestantism and capitalism, weber wasn"t the first to do this: in fact, most social theorists were responding to karl marx. Protestant ethic: published as two long articles in 1904 and 1905, protestant countries got rich first, 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 in the early part of the. There is clearly a relationship between protestantism and modern capitalism which cannot be whole explained by seeing the former as a result of the latter: weber distinguishes other forms of capitalism as economic traditionalism . The attitudes toward labor are symptomatic of this. Absolute and conscious ruthlessness in acquisition has often stood in direct and close connection with the strictest conformity to tradition .
