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Foundations

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

Description: In The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Weber puts forward a thesis that Puritan ethic and ideas had influenced the development of capitalism. However religious devotion usually was accompanied by rejection of mundane affairs including economic pursuit. Why was that not the case with Protestantism? Weber addresses that paradox in that work.

Importance: Topic creator, Breakthrough, Influence

Functionalism

Conflict theory

Interactionism

Symbolic-interactionism

Economic sociology

Environmental sociology

Economic development

Human ecology

Industrial sociology

Medical sociology

Author Gerhardt, Uta E. Title Ideas about illness : an intellectual history of medical sociology / Uta Gerhardt. Imprint Basingstoke : Macmillan Education, 1989.

Political sociology

Philo C. Wasburn, Political Sociology (New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1982)

Program evaluation

Rural sociology

Sociology of religion

Systems theory

Sociology of Markets

Social change

Social demography

Sociology of disaster

Urban sociology

Computational sociology


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