(1904 / 1905) The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.For more than 100 years, Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism has set the parameters for the debate over the origins of modern capitalism. (various editions or simply search Internet archive at archive org) (1922) Economy and society an outline of interpretive sociology. (1970) Marx, Weber, and the development of capitalism, Sociology,4, 3, 289–310. (1971) The Ismailis in Tanzania: A Weberian Analysis, The British Journal of Sociology, 22, 4, 365-380. Key to this perspective is a concern for what may today recognise as interdisciplinarity, criticality and and interest in the consequences of cultural beliefs.īocock, R. You can find some self styled Weberian analyses (for example Bocock, 1971 below) but he offers more a way of thinking about social research rather than a particular method or methodology. Weber has been hugely influential in our understanding of social theory but his work is difficult to categorise.
In practice all aspects of authority were interrelated and dynamic, though there was a tendency towards rational authority in the modern state. All three were ideal types – or generalisations. Put briefly he identified three types of authority: rational (rule based) traditional and charismatic. Weber is also much known for his later work on authority. By stressing the cultural, rather than the economic, dimension Weber has often been seen as anti Marxist camp but things are more complicated than that, Weber was choosing to focus on the cultures we create rather than dismissing structural and other issues (see Giddens 1970 below if you want to carry this further ).
His views have been much debated but the key idea in Weber was that there was a link between the rise of capitalism and an ethos of self control associated with Protestant reformation. Max Weber (1864- 1920) is perhaps best known of his work on the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.
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