Project description
part 1) summary/thematic review of authors work, treat different works as a unified whole and discuss his overall thematic view of capitalism and its foundations.
Part 2) critical engagement with the author’s overall argument, including a) a discussion of the epistemological position that motivates the author’s argument, and an examination of the ways in which that epistemological position is informed or affected by the social formation in which they worked and the aspect of it they choose to theorize
b) a discussion of the contribution this theorist’s work makes to understanding the world in a uniquely sociological manner, including the ethical implications of that argument.

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Max Weber
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Max Weber writes, “One of the fundamental elements of the spirit of modern capitalism, and not only of that but of all modern culture: ration conduct on the basis of the idea of the calling was born… from the spirit of Christian asceticism.”

Please answer ALL parts of the three questions for this essay.

A. Explain Weber’s model of the development of modern western rational sober bourgeois capitalism and the role of the protestant ethic in its origins. In answering this question, make sure you 1) Discuss the various conditions necessary for the development of western rational sober bourgeois capitalism. 2) Describe the key characteristics of the Protestant Ethic according to Weber. 3) Explain Weber’s understanding of how these characteristics advance the process of rationalization that characterizes the modern division of labor.

B. What happens to the religious component of the Protestant Ethic as rationalization produces an “iron cage”?

C. How is Weber’s model a criticism of the economic determinism of Marx Engels and Adam Smith? How might these theorists in turn criticize Weber’s model of the origins of western rational sober bourgeois capitalism?