Weber, Max, Parsons, Talcott, and Tawney, R. H. (2003).
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Dover Value Editions)
Dover Publications.
| 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. |
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