Acedera, Archie 076204 December 14, 2018

Sociology 313 (Socio theory 1)

Protestant Ethic and Spirit of Capitalism

By: Max Weber

Chapter 2
The Spirit of Capitalism
1. The Analytic and Substantive Objectives.
 The concrete genetics set of relations which are inevitably of a
specifically unique individual character and some historical explanation.
Which is how the Calvinist creating the capitalistic belief. What
attitudes they have and in terms of capitalism.
 Calvinist many societies had capitalism in the sense of avarice or
greed of wealthy, the Spirit of capitalism was brought about Calvinist.
And why weber interested in the Calvinist societies. They have many
preacher that they influence people in the Calvinist societies.

2. Main Argument.
 The peculiarity of this philosophy of avarice appears to be the ideal of
honest man of recognized credit, and above all the idea of a duty of the
individual toward the increase of his capital, which is assumed as an
end in itself.
 The capitalistic economy of the present day is an immense cosmos into
which the individual is born, and which present itself to him, at least as
an individual, as an unalterable order of things in which he must live, it
forces the individual, in so far as he involves in the system of market
relationship.

3. Main Research Question.

 Their belief that it express a type of feeling which is closely connected
with a certain religious ideas.
 The idea of the Calvinist that how they influenced the modern
capitalism, the involvement of their religious idea in business, and the
how to understand the source of this spirit and the impact on the
development of the religious ideas.