1st Edition

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

By Max Weber Copyright 2001
348 Pages
by Routledge

347 Pages
by Routledge

For the first time in 70 years, a new translation of Max Weber's classic The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism --one of the seminal works in sociology-- published in September 2001. Translator Stephen Kalberg is an internationally acclaimed Weberian scholar, and in this new translation he offers a precise and nuanced rendering that captures both Weber's style and the unusual... Read more
Part 1 The Problem; Chapter 1 Religious Affiliation and Social Stratification; Chapter 2 The Spirit of Capitalism; Chapter 3 Luther’s Conception of the Calling; Part 2 The Vocational Ethic of Ascetic Protestantism; Chapter 4 The Religious Foundations of this-Worldly Asceticism; Chapter 5 Asceticism and the Spirit of Capitalism; Chapter 6 The Protestant Sects and the Spirit of Capitalism, Hans H. Gerth, C. Wright Mills; Chapter 7 Max Weber’s ‘Prefatory Remarks’ to Collected Essays in the Sociology of Religion (1920), Stephen Kalberg;

Biography

Stephen Kalberg