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Sociological Thought Sukanya Das, Lovely Professional University

notes unit-21: analysis of modern capitalism, protestant ethics
and origin of capitalism

contents
Objectives

Introduction
21.1 Subject Matter
21.2 Protestant Ethics and Rise of Capitalism
21.3 Summary
21.4 Keywords

21.5 Review Questions
21.6 Further Readings

objectives

After studying this unit, the students will be able to:

y Sociological explanation of religion,
y Understand the relation among the trend of protestant ethics and origin of capitalism.

introduction

Weber has considered religious factor as a variable element in his study and tried to do representation
and analysis of the its effect on the economic and many sociological incidents. Weber believes that it
is only possible to make the decision of the effect of causation after the study of only in some mean
similar and other in different examples. Therefore he has not considered only one religion but rather
given place to some great world religion in his study. There are another reason of doing this Max
Weber feels that it cannot the solution of their problem to more clearly historical process like Marx;
for that find out any solid base and that base is the religious base.

21.1 subject matter

Undoubtedly it is the important gift of Max Weber in the study of legal, economic and sociological
history, but ‘Sociology of Religion’ is very important and known pittance. Weber has done the
comprehensive study of the important religion in world and on the bases of that study he tries to
give sociological explanation of religion. His clear study is in three big texts, what is the relation in
economic and sociological incident. Parsons writes in this relation, “Undoubtedly Weber was special
sociological and economic writer in all fields and by this he could have expand their rest academic
fulfilment in a great historical study easily, but instead of that he turned in different study field and
took in the religious conduct of great world religion and their sociological and economic structure of
pure comparative study.” The main aim of this comparative study was to prove that in sociological
structure overall which element are specially specific and central important for society.

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