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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Cover of the German edition from 1934
Author Max Weber
Original title Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus
Country Germany
Language German
Genre Economic sociology
Publication date
1905
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (
German:
Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus) is a book written by
Max Weber, a German
sociologist, economist, and politician. Begun as a series of essays, the original German text was composed in 1904 and 1905, and was translated into English for the first time by American sociologist
Talcott Parsons in 1930.
[1] It is considered a founding text in
economic sociology and
sociology in general.
In the book, Weber wrote that capitalism in
Northern Europe evolved when the
Protestant (particularly
Calvinist) ethic influenced large numbers of people to engage in work in the secular world, developing their own
enterprises and engaging in trade and the accumulation of wealth for investment. In other words, the
Protestant work ethic was an important force behind the unplanned and uncoordinated emergence of modern
capitalism.
[2] In his book, apart from Calvinists, Weber also discusses
Lutherans (especially
Pietists, but also notes differences between traditional Lutherans and Calvinists),
Methodists,
Baptists,
Quakers, and
Moravians (specifically referring to the
Herrnhut-based community under
Count von Zinzendorf's spiritual lead).
In 1998, the
International Sociological Association listed this work as the fourth most important sociological book of the 20th century.
[3] It is the 8th most cited book in the social sciences published before 1950.
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