The Protestant Ethic Turns 100
Subtitle: Essays on the Centenary of the Weber Thesis (Great Barrington Books)
Contributors: Jr., William H. Swatos (Editor); Lutz Kaelber (Editor)
Publisher: Paradigm Publishers
Published: September 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9781594510991
Subjects: Anthropology; Protestantism & Protestant Churches; Sociology - General; Social Science; Sociology; Sociology of Religion; Political Science / History & Theory; Capitalism; Christian ethics; Protestant churches; Religion and sociology; Religious aspects
First sentence: WHEN MAX WEBER, TOGETHER WITH EDGAR JAFFÉ AND WERNER SOMBART, took over the editorship of the Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik in the summer of 1903, he was faced with an unexpected dilemma: On the one hand, Weber had stated in the editorial for the first volume of the Archiv for which the new team of editors was responsible that no topic was more important for them than the investigation of the historical role and the theoretical implications of capitalism.