Sociology Outline

Sociology

Sociological Theories

Max Weber

• The Protestant Ethic
  • that the Calvinistic view that prosperity was God's affirmation of individual worth led to capitalism and Western prosperity
    • this view is generally discredited, but holds some truths
      • Catholicism's anti-competitive structures v. protestantisms individualism
        • empowerment of the individual and competition v. universal "catholic" social, political, and economic structures