Quantitative Studies of the Applicability of the Weber Thesis to Post-World War II U.S.A.: A Call for Redirected Efforts
Quantitative studies applying the Weber thesis to the post-World War II United States are seen as attempts to replicate findings in the Offenbacher (1901) study of differences in occupational and educational attainments between ascetic Protestants and Roman Catholics cited by Max Weber in "The...
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| Language: | English |
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Sage Publications
1974
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Review of religious research
Year: 1974, Volume: 16, Issue: 1, Pages: 47-58 |
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| Summary: | Quantitative studies applying the Weber thesis to the post-World War II United States are seen as attempts to replicate findings in the Offenbacher (1901) study of differences in occupational and educational attainments between ascetic Protestants and Roman Catholics cited by Max Weber in "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism." These studies are found to be largely fruitless and misdirected. Two lines of potentially more valuable research are suggested. The first calls for improvements in the operationalization of key variables in the Weber thesis. The second calls for researchers to update the original thesis taking into account developments in capitalism since Weber wrote of its earlier stages. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-4866 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review of religious research
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3510197 |