The Major Argument In The Protestant Ethic

Yazmine Mendoza
Professor Fenton
Soc 302 (Wed. at 12pm)
Final Project

2. What is the major argument in The Protestant Ethic? To answer this question select some quotations from The Protestant Ethic and build your answer around the quotations. Every person has a different reason for working. There are some people who enjoy the jobs they do; some see it as a way of getting rich and getting nice materialistic things. Then on the other hand there are some who work whatever job they can get to make ends meet at home. Some see it more than just receiving money but see it as a gratification of something within them. In The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism written by Max Weber, Weber builds his theory from the beginning of capitalism
He that can earn ten shillings a day by his labour, and goes abroad, or sits idle, one half of that day, though he spends but sixpence during his diversion or idleness, ought not to reckon that the only expense; he has really spent, or rather thrown away, five shillings besides. Remember, that credit is money. If a man lets his money lie in my hands after it is due, he gives me the interest, or so much as I can make of it during that time. This amount to a considerable sum where a man has good and large credit, and makes good use of it” (Weber, 14). Weber believed that Benjamin Franklin stressed that earning and spending money wasn’t just a fixation with getting wealthy. It was to teach decency that contributes ones services in
There are many contributions that Emile Durkheim made to Sociology. He insisted that sociology must study the causes and functions of social facts. A) Define “social facts” Use both an appropriate quote (properly cited directly from The Rules of Sociological Methods) Durkheim’s words can be found on page 31-163 and your own analysis. B) Give example from modern life 9not given by Durkheim in Rules). C) What does not cause social facts? The creation of the field Sociology, started with Emile Durkheim. He focused on what sociology is and how it should be studied. Durkheim disputed that the most important objective of sociology was to categorize social facts. Durkheim defined social facts as “ways of acting, thinking and feeling which possess the remarkable property of existing outside the consciousness of the individual” (Durkheim, 51).
Durkheim also explained that social facts are external to the individual; “Here, then is a category of facts which present very special characteristic: they consist of manners of acting, thinking and feeling external to the individual, which are invested with a coercive power by virtue of which they exercise control over him” (Durkheim, 52). People don’t choose the type of social facts we get to live