ISBN:
9781579583385
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (349 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
DDC:
306.6
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
For the first time in 70 years, a new translation of Max Weber's classic The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism --one of the seminal works in sociology-- published in September 2001. Translator Stephen Kalberg is an internationally acclaimed Weberian scholar, and in this new translation he offers a precise and nuanced rendering that captures both Weber's style and the unusual subtlety of his descriptions and causal arguments. Weber's original italicization, highlighting major themes, has been restored, and Kalberg has standardized Weber's terminology to better faci
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction to the Translation; Introduction to the Protestant Ethic; Glossary; THE PROTESTANT ETHIC AND THE SPIRIT OF CAPITALISM; Part I: The Problem; Chapter I. Religious Affiliation and Social Stratification; Chapter II. The Spirit of Capitalism; Chapter III. Luther's Conception of the Calling; The Task of the Investigation; Part II: The Vocational Ethic of Ascetic Protestantism; Chapter IV. The Religious Foundations of This-Worldly Asceticism; A. Calvinism; B. Pietism; C. Methodism; D. The Baptizing Sects and Churches
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter V. Asceticism and the Spirit of Capitalism'The Protestant Sects and the Spirit of Capitalism'; 'Prefatory Remarks' to Collected Essays in the Sociology of Religion (1920); Notes for The Protestant Ethic; Notes for 'The Protestant Sects'; Notes for 'Prefatory Remarks'; Name Index; Subject Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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