The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
, by Kalberg,StephenNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9781579583385 | 1579583385
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 6/1/2001
This brilliant study opposes the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and its view that change takes place through the conflict of opposites. Instead, Weber relates the rise of a capitalist economy to the Puritan determination to work out anxiety over salvation or damnation by performing good deeds -- an effort that ultimately encouraged capitalism.