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The work traces a historical and sociological argument from religious affiliation and social stratification to the “spirit of capitalism,” linking ideas about vocation, discipline, and ethical conduct to the development of capitalist life. Through its structured parts and case discussions, it frames a lasting debate on religion and social theory.","The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism  \n‘Max Weber is the one undisputed canonical figure in contemporary sociology.’  \nThe Times Higher Education Supplement  \n‘Weber’s essay is certainly one of the most fruitful examinations of the relations between religion and social theory which has appeared, and I desire to acknowledge my indebtedness to it.’  \nR. H. Tawney, Religion and the Rise of Capitalism  \nMax  \nWeber  \nThe Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism  \nTranslated by Talcott Parsons  \nWith an introduction by Anthony Giddens  \nLondon and  \nNew York  \nFirst published 1930 by Allen and Unwin First published by Routledge 1992  \nFirst published in Routledge Classics 2001  \nby Routledge  \n11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE  \n29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001  \nRoutledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group  \nThis edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005.  \n“To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of [eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk](eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk).”  \n© 1930 Max Weber  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.  \nBritish Library Cataloguing in Publication Data  \nA catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data A catalog record for this book has been applied for  \nISBN 0-203-99580-5 Master e-book ISBN  \nISBN 0–415–25559–7 (hbk)  \nISBN 0–415–25406–X (pbk)  \nCONTENTS  \nIntroduction by Anthony Giddens vii  \nTranslator’s Preface xxv  \nAuthor’s Introduction xxviii  \nPART I The Problem 1  \n1 Religious Affiliation and Social Stratification 3  \n2 The Spirit of Capitalism 13  \n3 Luther’s Conception of the Calling: Task of  \nthe Investigation 39  \nPART II The Practical Ethics of the Ascetic Branches of Protestantism 51  \n4 The Religious Foundations of Worldly Asceticism 53  \nA. Calvinism 56  \nB. Pietism 80  \nC. Methodism 89  \nD. The Baptist Sects 92  \nvi contents  \n5 Asceticism and the Spirit of Capitalism 102  \nNotes 126  \nIndex 263  \nINTRODUCTION  \nThe Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism undoubtedly ranks as one of the most renowned, and controversial, works of modern social science. First published as a two-part article in 1904–5, in the Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik , of which Weber was one of the editors, it immediately provoked a critical debate, in which Weber participated actively, and which, some seventy years later, has still not gone off the boil. This English translation is in fact taken from the revised version of the work, that first appeared in Weber’s Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Religionssoziologie (Collected Essays on the Sociology of Religion), published in 1920–1 just after Weber’s death, and thus contains comments on the critical literature to which its initial appearance had given rise.  \nWeber wrote The Protestant Ethic at a pivotal period of his intellectual career, shortly after his recovery from a depressive illness that had incapacitated him from serious academic work for a period of some four years. Prior to his sickness, most of Weber’s works, although definitely presaging the themes developed in the later phase of his life, were technical researches in economic  \nviii introduction  \nhistory, economics and jurisprudence. They include studies of mediaeval trading law (his doctoral dissertation), the development of Roman land-tenure, and the contemporary socioeconomic conditions of rural workers in the eastern part of Germany. 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