The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

Sociologist Max Weber witnessed the global modernization that took place throughout Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In his search for an answer to the question of what was driving these transformations, Weber concluded that it was not so much the emergence of new technologies or economic policies as the transformation of the paradigm of thinking caused by the Reformation. According to the author, the spread of Protestantism led to changes in moral and ethical principles, attitudes towards work and the role of people in society, and as a result became the starting point for the emergence of capitalism.