SOCA02H3 Chapter 44: Chapter 44 and 46 MSL notes

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Max weber for example placed the institution of religion at the center of his social analyses. Weber was particularly concerned with how changes in the institution of religion of religion influenced changes in other social institutions, especially the economy. The selection excerpted here is from weber argues that the early protestant worldviews of calvinism and puritanism were the primary factors in influencing the development of a capitalist economic system. Without the protestant reformation and a change in societal values toward rationality, capitalism would not have evolved as we know it today. Even the organization of unfree labour reached a considerable degree of rationality only on plantations and to a very limited extent in the ergasteria of antiquity. The influence of certain religious ideas on the development of an economic spirit, or the ethos of an economic system. Max weber examined how the institutions of religions influenced changes in the economy, this passage by russell shorto investigates this relationship.

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