The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

From Geography

The book ‘The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism’ was written by the German sociologist Max Weber in 1905. He wrote about the relation between capitalism in the northern part of Europe and the religion of this part of Europe.

The majority of northern Europe was Protestant and these people had different ethics then others. Weber found the origins of these ethics related to the Reformation, a revolt of the Protestant against the Roman Catholic Church and her ideas about salvation and assurance of that.