Foundations

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

• Max Weber
• Die protestantische Ethik und der 'Geist' des Kapitalismus, 1904
• Online version

Description: In The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Weber puts forward a thesis that Puritan ethic and ideas had influenced the development of capitalism. However religious devotion usually was accompanied by rejection of mundane affairs including economic pursuit. Why was that not the case with Protestantism? Weber addresses that paradox in that work.

Importance: Topic creator, Breakthrough, Influence

Functionalism

Conflict theory

• Der Rassenkampf (Struggle of the Races) 1909, Ludwig Gumplowicz
• The Forms of Capital, 1986 (in English) Pierre Bourdieu: distinguishes between economic capital, social capital and cultural capital

Interactionism

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Medical sociology

Author Gerhardt, Uta E. Title Ideas about illness : an intellectual history of medical sociology / Uta Gerhardt. Imprint Basingstoke : Macmillan Education, 1989.

Political sociology

Philo C. Wasburn, Political Sociology (New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1982)

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See also

• List of publications in science