Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer
Using Max Weber’s theory, discuss what ethical and religious ideas produced capitalism in certain societies and how?
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Max Weber tested his thesis comparatively. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1904–05) located the ethic in the West. His Economic Ethics of the World Religions series (The Religion of China, 1915; The Religion of India, 1916; Ancient Judaism, 1917–19) asked why China and India, despite trade, cities, money and craft skills, did…
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- The West: an ethic of world mastery
- Why not elsewhere: the comparative logic
- How the ideas worked
- The Indian debate
- Assessment
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