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Who are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity

Huntington, Samuel P. (2004) Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity. New York: Simon & Schuster. [Brief part in Chapter 4 - Individualism and Work Ethic, Protestant America and Catholicism]

America was founded by British settlers who brought with them a distinct culture including the English languzge, Protestant values, individualism, religious commitment, and respect for law. The waves of immigrants that later came to the United States gradually accepted these values and assimilated into America's Anglo-Protestant culture. More recently, however, national identity has been redoded by the problems of assimilating massive numbers of primarily Hispanic immigrants, bilingualism, multiculturalism, the devaluation of citizenship, an the "denationalization" of American elites. (From the front flap of the hardcover edition)

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: and Other Writings

Weber, Max, Baehr, Peter (Ed.), and Wells, Gordon C. (Ed.) (2002). The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: and Other Writings (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) Penguin Classics.

Book Description: In The Protestant Ethic, Max Weber opposes the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and relates the rise of the capitalist economy to the Calvinist belief in the moral value of hard work and the fulfillment of one's worldly duties. Based on the original 1905 edition, this volume includes, along with Weber's treatise, an illuminating introduction, a wealth of explanatory notes, and exemplary responses and remarks-both from Weber and his critics-sparked by publication of The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.

This is the first English translation of the 1905 German text and the first volume to include Weber's unexpurgated responses to his critics, which reveal important developments in and clarifications of Weber's argument.

About the Author: Max Weber (1864-1920), the German sociologist and historian, significantly influenced the development of modern social science through his attempts to develop a systematic methodology for cross-cultural studies. He also published comparative studies of authority and domination and emphasized the importance of bureaucracy in modern Western societies.

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

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.

The Protestant Work Ethic

Furnham, A. (1990). The Protestant Work Ethic: The Psychology of Work-Related Beliefs and Behaviours. New York: Routledge.

Psychologists have long been active in investigating concepts integral to the Protestant work ethic–the topic is a central one in such areas as occupational, industrial, and social psychology. Here, for the first time, is a comprehensive and explicitly psychological account. (From back cover of the book)

Comparative Work Ethics

Pelikan, J. K. and Nasr, S.H. (Ed.) (1985). Comparative Work Ethics: Judeo-Christian, Islamic, and Eastern. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, Occasional Papers of the Council of Scholars, No. 4.