Weber is clear in distinguishing modern capitalism as a rational system from other traditional economic activities. According to Weber, only the West has witnessed noteworthy developments in the fields of rationality, science, political order, and capitalism. In his introduction Weber poses a rhetorical question – “What combination of circumstances the fact should be attributed that in Western civilization, and in Western civilization only, cultural phenomenon has appeared which (as we like to think) lie in a line of development having universal significance and value” – that notices the distinctiveness of the Western culture. In The Protestant Ethic, Max Weber sets out to demonstrate a historical connection between the development of capitalism and the rise of the Protestant movement. Weber argues that religious asceticism was a central force in the genesis of capitalism. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism has been popular among the scholars of relgion and sociologists in establishing the prominence of ideas over the centrality of material conditions in the making of history. The Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism.
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