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WHY WORK.(Biography)
In the fall of 1897, Max Weber suffered a nervous breakdown. He was thirty-three years old--still quite young, in the rigidly hierarchical world of German academia--and occupied a prestigious chair in political economics at the University of Heidelberg. Over the previous decade, routinely working until 1 a.m., he had assembled a list of publications that filled several pages and ranged from the agrarian history of Rome to the deficiencies of the German stock market. Following his breakdown, according to his wife, Marianne, who also happened to be his cousin, "everything was too much for him; he could not read, write, talk, walk or sleep without torment." A slight ...
- Spirit of capitalism and the Protestant ethic: an enquiry into the Weber thesis.
- Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Sociology December 22, 1997 700+ words
...refutation of Weber's Protestant Ethic Thesis. Samuelsson...and thirdly, Weber's argument that the protestant ethic included a profit...argues that the protestant ethic is in fact a dual...thesis is that Weber fails "to give...
- A historian reads Max Weber; essays on the Protestant ethic.(Brief...
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News August 1, 2009 700+ words
...historian reads Max Weber; essays on the Protestant ethic. Ghosh, Peter...German sociologist Max Weber's influential The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of...place of the The Protestant Ethic within Weber's oeuvre, the...
- Weber, Max. The History of Commercial Partnerships in the Middle Ages: The...
- Magazine article from: International Social Science Review Hirsch, Michael L. March 22, 2005 700+ words
Weber, Max. The History...Complete English Edition of Weber's Prelude to The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism...exploration in which we find Weber engaged demonstrates...works, such as The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism...
- The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Social Forces Gorski, Philip S. December 1, 2003 700+ words
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit...Capitalism. By Max Weber, 3d ed...266 pp. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit...Writings. By Max Weber, translated...has read the Protestant Ethic in the original...liberties with Weber's language...
- Protestant Ethic, The
- Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences January 1, 2008 700+ words
...and 1905, Max Weber ’ s classic The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit...predestination anchors Weber ’ s argument in The Protestant Ethic . According to...the source of the Protestant ethic, Weber maintained. Weber...
- The protestant ethic.
- Magazine article from: World Policy Journal Bell, Daniel September 22, 1996 700+ words
Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit...source, which Weber did not develop...behavior. The Protestant ethic as a way of life...Thus, one part of Weber's proposition that the Protestant ethic restrained consumption...
- Religion and economic action: the Protestant ethic, the rise of capitalism and...
- Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Sociology December 22, 1997 700+ words
...refutation of Weber's Protestant Ethic Thesis. Samuelsson...and thirdly, Weber's argument that the protestant ethic included a profit...argues that the protestant ethic is in fact a dual...thesis is that Weber fails "to give...
- Protestant Ethic Turns 100, William H. Swatos.
- Magazine article from: Latin Trade December 1, 2005 700+ words
Protestant Ethic Turns 100, William H. Swatos On the 100th anniversary of the first publication of these essays on the Protestant Ethic by the German economist Max Weber, various thinkers discuss the applicability of the work...
