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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 source of 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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| He appropriately titled
his book as: The Protestant Ethic and The Spirit of Capitalism. |
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| From 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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