The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Max Weber
Reading notes--Adam Kissel
using 2001 Kalberg translation
(my errata list forthcoming if typos not corrected in next printing)
Weber's continual restatement of the point of the book
Part I: The Problem
Chapter I: Religious Affiliation and Social Stratification
Chapter II: The Spirit of Capitalism
Chapter III: Luther's Conception of the Calling
Part II: The Vocational Ethic of Ascetic Protestantism
Chapter IV: The Religious Foundations of This-Worldly Asceticism
Chapter V: Asceticism and the Spirit of Capitalism