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Write short note on The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, keeping sociological perspective in view.

  • UPSC 2011
  • Sociological Thinkers

Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1904–05) asked why rational bourgeois capitalism arose first in the modern West. Its answer is a founding statement of interpretive, multi-causal sociology: ideas, not only material interests, can shape economic life.

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