Is It Justified to Speak of a Jesuit Work Ethic in the Basque Country?—Variations on a Weberian Theme

In the summer of 1897 Max Weber paid a visit to the Basque Country and wrote two long letters to his mother in which he described his impressions of the region. The letters invite for speculation on a supposed Jesuit work ethic. Weber did not remain the only social scientist to speculate about the theme; the Basque anthropologist Julio Caro Baroja thought about it, too. However, both Weber's and Baroja's reflections remain conceptually vague and without real empirical support. It is only with Eduardo Jorge Glas's study of Bilbao's business elite that we get the actual proof of the existence of such a Jesuit work ethic

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  Open Access•Jonah Olsen•Antipode•2024

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