Foundations
Description: In The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Weber puts forward a thesis that Puritan ethic and ideas had influenced the development of capitalism. However religious devotion usually was accompanied by rejection of mundane affairs including economic pursuit. Why was that not the case with Protestantism? Weber addresses that paradox in that work.
Importance: Topic creator, Breakthrough, Influence
Author Gerhardt, Uta E.
Title Ideas about illness : an intellectual history of medical sociology / Uta Gerhardt.
Imprint Basingstoke : Macmillan Education, 1989.
Philo C. Wasburn, Political Sociology (New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1982)
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