"... a brilliant study of the psychological conditions which made possible the development of capitalist civilization."--The New Republic
This brilliant study--the author's best-known and most controversial work--opposes the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and its view that change takes place through the conflict of opposites. Instead, Weber relates the rise of a capitalist economy to the Puritan determination to work out anxiety over salvation or damnation by performing good deeds--an effort that ultimately discouraged belief in predestination and encouraged capitalism. Weber's classic has long been required reading in college and advanced high school social studies classrooms. 1958 ed. Notes.

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The sociology of religion
ancient judaism
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: and Other Writings (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism with Other Writings on the Rise of the West
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Norton Critical Editions)