Changes in the Puritan Concept of Calling or Vocation

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7098488
AutoresRobert Michaelsen (autor de correspondencia), Robert S Michaelsen
Año1953
Volumen26
Número3
Páginas315-315
Fecha de publicación1953-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe New England Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0028-4866 • E-ISSN: 1937-2213
EditorialThe MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2307/362847
OpenAlexW2318227336
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas11

M AX Weber's famous essay, The Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, has focused attention, in dramatic and persuasive fashion, on the influence of the Protestant ethic on the development of capitalism, and specifically on the role of the concept of the calling in releasing the economic drives of western man. Weber built much of his case on the Puritans, but in doing so he overlooked, in the opinion of this writer, certain rather crucial changes which took place within Puritanism, and thus failed to give an adequate picture of the relationship between this particular form of Protestantism and the spirit of capitalism

Sociology · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory