The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

of Émile Durkheim and Karl Marx. His main focus was on how modern day capitalization works. With the rise of capitalism and enlightenment, Weber wanted to understand and proposed how the modern societies are driven by rationality, secularization and so called dehumanization and disenchantment. According to Weber, the rise of the protestant work ethics led to the rise of modern capitalism. People started believing less in spiritual matters and started to concentrate more on hard work and money.…

businesses and the economy. The government also restricted new players in the game of the economy as they brought the threat of new ideas and technologies that may conflict with their own. Another view of this can be seen in Weber’s theory of the spirit of…

The Orange Sun, Bioethics and Praxis of Systemic Annihilation in Kaine Agary’s Yellow Yellow ABSTRACT From the quasi-oral form, African Literature has cascaded through systemic phases in less than two hundred years of contact with the Western written form. It has migrated from that dark romance portrayed by western writers to contemporariness of self-reappraisal. The primary inclination of these texts has been the ultimate question. What have we achieved with our independence? The unsavoury…