The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is Max Weber\'s groundbreaking study of the psychological and spiritual conditions that allowed for the development of capitalist culture.
First, in a reversal of the Marxian thesis that material conditions form the basis for "states of mind," Weber asserts that it is these very mental conditions and associated cultural values that shaped the capitalist world and the human quest for prospe.
Weber\'s thesis takes off from startling twin reversals.
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is Max Weber\'s groundbreaking study of the psychological and spiritual conditions that allowed for the development of capitalist culture