{"id":7225,"date":"2020-03-20T17:52:43","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T12:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=7225"},"modified":"2020-03-20T17:52:43","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T12:22:43","slug":"making-connections-sociological-research-the-protestant-work-ethic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/making-connections-sociological-research-the-protestant-work-ethic\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Connections: Sociological Research The Protestant Work Ethic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Relevance: Sociology: Max Weber: Protestant ethics and the spirit of capitalism<\/strong><br \/>\nIn a series of essays in 1904, Weber presented the idea of the Protestant work ethic, a new attitude<br \/>\ntoward work based on the Calvinist principle of predestination. In the 16th century, Europe was<br \/>\nshaken by the Protestant Revolution. Religious leaders such as Martin Luther and John Calvin<br \/>\nargued against the Catholic Church\u2019s belief in salvation through obedience.<\/p>\n<p>While Catholic leaders emphasized the importance of religious dogma and performing good deeds as a gateway to heaven, Protestants believed that inner grace, or faith in God, was enough to achieve salvation.<br \/>\nJohn Calvin in particular popularized the Christian concept of predestination, the idea that all<br \/>\nevents\u2014including salvation\u2014have already been decided by God. Because followers were never<br \/>\nsure whether they had been chosen to enter Heaven or Hell, they looked for signs in their everyday<br \/>\nlives.<\/p>\n<p>If a person was hard-working and successful, he was likely to be one of the chosen. If a<br \/>\nperson was lazy or simply indifferent, he was likely to be one of the damned.<br \/>\nWeber argued that this mentality encouraged people to work hard for personal gain; after all,<br \/>\nwhy should one help the unfortunate if they were already damned? Over time, the Protestant work<br \/>\nethic spread and became the foundation for capitalism.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/slideplayer.com\/slide\/6299876\/21\/images\/14\/Max+Weber+%26+the+Protestant+Ethic.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for the protestant work ethic and the spirit of capitalism\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>For more such notes, Articles, News &amp; Views Join our Telegram Channel.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telegram Link\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Click the link below to see the details about the UPSC \u2013Civils courses offered by Triumph IAS. <\/span><a title=\"Courses available\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php\">https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance: Sociology: Max Weber: Protestant ethics and the spirit of capitalism In a series of essays in 1904, Weber presented<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114,115,116],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-7225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sociology-optional","category-sociology-optional-paper-i","category-sociology-optional-paper-ii","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7227,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7225\/revisions\/7227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}