The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism _Max Weber

The Protestant Ethic  and the Spirit of Capitalism

Max Weber

First Published 1930

Translated by Talcott Parsons

Introduction by Anthony Giddens

Pages : 314

Format PDF : 1.3 MB

Introduction by Anthony Giddens vii

Translator’s Preface xxv

Author’s Introduction xxviii

PART I The Problem 1

1 Religious Affiliation and Social Stratification 3

2 The Spirit of Capitalism 13

3 Luther’s Conception of the Calling: Task of the Investigation 39

PART II The Practical Ethics of the Ascetic Branches of Protestantism 51

4 The Religious Foundations of Worldly Asceticism 53

A. Calvinism 56

B. Pietism 80

C. Methodism 89

D. The Baptist Sects 92

5 Asceticism and the Spirit of Capitalism 102

Notes 126

Index 263