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London and New York ! All conversations No conversations yet. Start one by creating a highlight! × " # ? % & First published 1930 by Allen and Unwin First published by Routledge 1992 First published in Routledge Classics 2001 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” © 1930 Max Weber All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, ' ( ) * + ∠ Anthro 41a/IS 11 Spring 2021 - Gina Hakim ∠ Re… ?? 1 - . / 0 1 ! ???? 2 ? ?? All conversations No conversations yet. Start one by creating a highlight! MAX WEBER The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism abbreviations: MWC = modern, western capitalism Introduction Though knowledge and observation of great re?nement have existed elsewhere, only in the West has rationalization in science, law and culture developed to such a great degree. The modern West absolutely and completely depends for its whole existence, for the political technical, and economic conditions ofits life, on a specially trained organization of individuals, so that the most important unctions f of everyday life have come to be in the hands of technically, commercially and aboveall legally trained government of?cials. Nowhere else does this exist to such a degree as it does in the West. The most fateful force in modern life is capitalism. The impulse to acquisition has existed always and everywhere and has in itself nothing to do with capitalism. Capitalism is the pursuit of pro?t, and forever renewed pro?t,by means of continuous, rational, capitalistic enterprise. This enterprise must be continuous, because in a capitalistic society, anyone who did not take advantage of opportuniti es for pro?t-making would be doomed to extinction. A capitalistic economic action rests on the expectation of pro?t by the utilization of opportunities for exchange, on (formally) peaceful chances for pro?t. Where this is rationally pursued, calculations in terms of money are made, whether by modern bookkeeping or more primitive means. Everything is done in terms of balances of money income and money expenses. Whether the calculations are accurate, or whether the calculation method is traditional or by guess-work affects only the degree of the rationality of capitalistic acquisition. Characteristics of modern Western capitalism: rational industrial organization (that is, attuned to a regular pro?t nad not to political nor irrational speculative opportunities for pro?t); separation of business from the household; rational bookkeeping. Capitalistic adventurers (in search of booty, whether by waror exploitation) have existed everywhere, but only in the modern West has developed... the rational capitalistic organization of (formally) free labor. The rationality of MWC is dependent on the calculation of technical factors, and so is HC × " # ? % & ' ( ) * +
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