Beyond Lenski: A Critical Review of Recent "Protestant Ethic" Research
What is the result of the research stimulated by Lenski's "The Religious Factor?" This research testing hypotheses derived from Weber's Protestant Ethic thesis focused on Protestant-Catholic differentials in social status and mobility, in achievement motivation, and in educationa...
| Published in: | Journal for the scientific study of religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[1973]
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Journal for the scientific study of religion
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| Further subjects: | B
Protestant Ethics
B Social classes B Catholic Schools B social mobility B Calvinism B educational attainment B Catholicism B Capitalism |
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| Summary: | What is the result of the research stimulated by Lenski's "The Religious Factor?" This research testing hypotheses derived from Weber's Protestant Ethic thesis focused on Protestant-Catholic differentials in social status and mobility, in achievement motivation, and in educational and scientific performance. Most of the data were nonsupportive of, or contradictory to, the hypotheses derived from the Weber thesis. None of the research was adequate to the task of causal inference which is required by the logic of the hypotheses. Moreover, the independent variable--differences in religious belief--was not adequately operationalized. Finally, the researchers are criticized for the simplistic derivation of poor hypotheses from the analytically rich work of Weber. |
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| ISSN: | 1468-5906 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the scientific study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/1384886 |