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Do you agree with Max Weber that the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism are correlated? What are the alternative theories suggested by other academics?

  • UPSC 1987
  • Sociological Thinkers

Max Weber (The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, 1904–05) did not claim that Calvinism caused capitalism. His claim was narrower: an elective affinity between this-worldly asceticism and the methodical, reinvesting spirit of capitalism. So the correlation should be accepted only in this limited form.

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