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What, according to Max Weber, is the role of “particular religious ideas” in the emergence of modern capitalism?

  • UPSC 2009
  • Sociological Thinkers

Max Weber did not claim that religion in general produced capitalism. He argued that a specific cluster of doctrines in ascetic Protestantism (Calvinism, Pietism, Methodism and the Baptist sects) created psychological premiums that rationalised everyday conduct. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1904–05) traces how those ideas, through believers' meanings, fed the spirit…

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  • Why other Christian ideas differed
  • Their causal role
  • Criticisms
  • A contemporary parallel
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