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| Weber
wrote in response to Marx, with the intention of contradicting or reducing
the materialist approach. |
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| He
saw that the major change was the rise of Protestantism, with values and
beliefs which contributed to the industrial revolution. |
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| He
argued that the new values of Protestantism, frugality, independent thinking
and self reliance, were values and attitudes necessary to the creation
and growth of capitalist thinking and for actions necessary for the industrial
revolution. |
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appropriately titled his book as: The Protestant Ethic and The Spirit of
Capitalism. |
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our vantage point a century later, we can see that these different approaches,
Marx and Weber, were not necessarily mutually exclusive, but could be complementary
explanations. |
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