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  1. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.Max Weber, Talcott Parsons & R. H. Tawney - 2003 - Courier Corporation.
    The Protestant ethic — a moral code stressing hard work, rigorous self-discipline, and the organization of one's life in the service of God — was made famous by sociologist and political economist Max Weber. In this brilliant study (his best-known and most controversial), he opposes the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and its view that change takes place through "the struggle of opposites." Instead, he relates the rise of a capitalist economy to the Puritan determination to work out anxiety over (...)
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  • (1 other version)Religion as a control guide: On the impact of religion on cognition.Bernhard Hommel & Lorenza S. Colzato - 2010 - Zygon 45 (3):596-604.
    Religions commonly are taken to provide general orientation in leading one's life. We develop here the idea that religions also may have a much more concrete guidance function in providing systematic decision biases in the face of cognitive-control dilemmas. In particular, we assume that the selective reward that religious belief systems provide for rule-conforming behavior induces systematic biases in cognitive-control parameters that are functional in producing the wanted behavior. These biases serve as default values under uncertainty and affect performance in (...)
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  • (1 other version)Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life.Robert N. Bellah, Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler & Steven M. Tipton - 1986 - Ethics 96 (2):431-432.
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  • Review of Max Weber: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: With Other Writings on the Rise of the West[REVIEW]C. D. Burns - 1930 - International Journal of Ethics 41 (1):119-120.
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  • De la démocratie en Amérique.Alexis de Tocqueville - 1990 - Librairie Philosophique Vrin. Edited by Philippe Raynaud.
    Individualisme, centralisation et décentralisation, commercialisation de la littérature et des arts, obsession du bien-être matériel, concentration des capitaux industriels… autant de signes d’une modernité que Tocqueville annonçait il y a cent cinquante ans et étudiait avec une acuité de vues remarquable dans la Démocratie en Amérique.Cette première édition historico-critique offre pour la première fois aux lecteurs un texte revu et corrigé à l’aide du manuscrit original, de nombreuses variantes et des fragments inédits, des extraits de notes et brouillons utilisés pendant (...)
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