Weber, passion and profits : "the Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism" in context / Jack Barbalet.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barbalet, J. M., 1946- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Weber, Max, 1864-1920. Protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus.

Weber, Max.

Capitalism--Religious aspects--Protestant churches.

Capitalism.

Protestant work ethic.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 250 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Weber, Passion & Profits

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is one of the best-known and most enduring texts of classical sociology, continually inspirational and widely read by both scholars and students. In an insightful interpretation, Jack Barbalet discloses that Weber's work is not simply about the cultural origins of capitalism but an allegory concerning the Germany of his day. Situating The Protestant Ethic in the development of Weber's prior and subsequent writing, Barbalet traces changes in his understanding of key concepts including 'calling' and 'rationality'. In a close analysis of the ethical underpinnings of the capitalist spirit and of the institutional structure of capitalism, Barbalet identifies continuities between Weber and the eighteenth-century founder of economic science, Adam Smith, as well as Weber's contemporary, the American firebrand Thorstein Veblen. Finally, by considering Weber's investigation of Judaism and capitalism, important aspects of his account of Protestantism and capitalism are revealed.

Contents:

From the inaugural lecture to the Protestant ethic : political education and German futures

From the Protestant ethic to the vocation lectures : Beruf, rationality and emotion

Passions and profits : the emotional origins of capitalism in seventeenth-century England

Protestant virtues and deferred gratification : Max Weber and Adam Smith on the spirit of capitalism

Ideal-type, institutional and evolutionary analyses of the origins of capitalism : Max Weber and Thorstein Veblen

The Jewish question : religious doctrine and sociological method.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 226-243) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-18775-3

1-281-75148-0

9786611751487

0-511-41483-8

0-511-48875-0

0-511-41551-6

0-511-41324-6

0-511-41231-2

0-511-41418-8

OCLC:

437219436