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