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Weber's Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

7/31/2010

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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Tags: weber, capitalism, theory, protestant ethic, religion, rationality, subtitles/CC, 06 to 10 mins
Year: 2009
Length: 9:49
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Summary: This is a student-made video that summarizes Weber's book, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (which was done for a sociology class assignment).  It uses music, subtitles, and still images. The video is very well done and covers all the main points from the book.

Submitted By: Paul Dean

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Paul
1/2/2014 03:58:59 am

The below link no longer has audio. The audio has been removed from the video file.

Weber's Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
- See more at: http://www.thesociologicalcinema.com/1/post/2010/07/post-title-click-and-type-to-edit2.html#sthash.GK0NxE0p.dpuf

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Lester Andrist link
1/5/2014 01:20:25 am

Thanks for the note, Paul. I like to show this video when covering Weber in my own introductory sociology course. Since the video has been muted, I think I'll just play my own music while the video plays. Sociology Sounds (http://www.sociologysource.org/sociologysounds/) offers some nice ideas. Check it out.

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Guest - S Al
9/15/2015 11:01:21 am

I am watching your video - and I take issue with what came first the chicken or the egg; i.e., Calvin influenced Protestant Christians to deviate from their religion and change their economic activity and not the other way around. It was not the religion that influenced them to accumulate wealth. Calvin turned Christianity upside down. Christ said rich men had less chance of going to heaven than camels to go thru eyes of needles - but Calvin said to the Protestants opposing the French king and the Catholic Church that they should seek wealth. Weber points this out in The Protestant Ethic. Thus - it was NOT religion but Calvin who influenced the behavior that led to Capitalism. That's NOT in opposition to what Marx said. That's also NOT the religion influencing infrastructure. Marx would argue that Calvin was influenced by the economy adaptation and infrastructure to deviate from the religion.

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