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Max Weber
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Rationalization and the Spirit of Capitalism
Weber's most famous sociological work examines the cultural roots of modern Western economic organization. In The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905), he argued that the rise of modern, rational capitalism was closely tied to the psychological impulses generated by certain strains of ascetic Protestantism, particularly Calvinism.
Asceticism and Accumulation