Max Weber's best-known and most controversial work, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, first published in 1904, remains to this day a powerful and fascinating read. Weber's highly accessible style is just one of many reasons for his continuing popularity. The book contends that the Protestant ethic made possible and encouraged the development of capitalism in the West. Widely considered as the most informed work ever written on the social effects of advanced capitalism, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism holds its own as one of the most...

Selected extracts from Max Weber's writings which reflect the full range of his concerns.

For more than 100 years, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism has set the parameters for the debate over the origins of modern capitalism. Now more timely and thought-provoking than ever, this esteemed classic of twentieth-century social science examines the deep cultural "frame of mind" that influences work life to this day in northern America and Western Europe. Stephen Kalberg's internationally acclaimed translation captures the essence of Weber's style as well as the subtlety of his descriptions and causal arguments.
Now, for the first time in one volume, The...

Klassiker aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Meine hochverehrten Herren Wenn ich das erstemal die Ehre habe, im Kreise des Offizierskorps der k. u. k. Armee zu sprechen, so werden Sie verstehen, dass das fur mich eine etwas verlegene Situation ist. Vor allem deshalb, weil ich die Vorbedingungen: die inneren Verhaltnisse des Betriebes der k. u. k. Armee in gar keiner Weise kenne, diejenigen Vorbedingungen, die auch fur eine Einflussnahme des Offizierskorps auf die Mannschaft massgebend sind. Es ist ja selbstverstandlich, dass...

2012 Reprint of Original 1947 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. (c)New Foreword Martino Publishing. This volume contains a full and representative statement of Max Weber's sociological theory, drawn from important publications never previously translated. The book opens with a discussion of the analytical methods of sociology and an application of these methodological conclusions to the broadest classification of social relationship and groups. Nearly half the volume is devoted to a further elaboration of this scheme in the...

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2013 Reprint of 1927 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Max Weber's "General Economic History" is based on his lecture notes and compiled shortly after his death. In this work Weber proposes an institutional theory of the rise of capitalism in the west. Unlike in his classic work on the Protestant ethic, religion is given a minor role. The emphasis of the work lies instead on the place of the state and calculable law in allowing economic actors to predict exchange for gain. Weber's institutional theory of capitalism was...

Facharbeit (Schule) aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Sozialwissenschaften allgemein, Note: 1,3, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Den richtigen Standort fur die Produktion eines Unternehmens zu finden, ist nie einfach, doch in Zeiten der Globalisierung haben die Moglichkeiten fur Konzerne stark zugenommen. Denn die Globalisierung hat viele Chancen zur Verlagerung von Produktionsstatten fur Unternehmen eroffnet, da die Entwicklungen im Bereich der Informations- und Kommunikationstechnik1 grenzuberschreitende Standort-verlagerungen sehr viel einfacher gemacht haben. Zudem erleichtert der Fortschritt...