Issue Editor’s Preface
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12697384 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Baehr (0000-0001-7921-7162, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 5-9 |
| Publication date | 2005-02-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Classical Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1468-795X • E-ISSN: 1741-2897 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1468795x05050035 |
| OpenAlex | W2016527941 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
This issue of JCS marks the centenary of one of the most debated works of social science: Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the ‘Spirit’ of Capitalism. Originally published in 1905, as a two-part essay, it was reworked in the summer of 1919 and subtly reshaped to fit Weber’s research programme for the sociology of the world religions.1 Probing, passionate, inspired, opinionated, remorseless – the qualities of the essay strikingly parallel the early Protestants who Weber wrote about. His sympathy for them as inner-directed rebels against tradition is palpable. Tormented by inner demons of his own, the writer of The Protestant Ethic saw nothing incongruous about a religious ethos that made forceful spiritual demands on the believer – or one, indeed, that came to suggest that the purpose of life was to be tested rather than consoled
Epistemology · Sociology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Emile Durkheim and Sociology · Philosophy · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,1 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2016 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |