Weber’s Protestant Ethic Thesis in Five Steps

摘要

As a result of many years of reading about and teaching Max Weber’s famousProtestant Ethic thesis, I have developed an approach to covering this material in bothmy undergraduate and graduate theory courses which has been benefcial to studentsand has helped them make sense of the rather complex argument developed by Weber.I provide a working model of all such scholarly inquires geared o? the Science Triad,culminatng in a fve-step approach to organizing and explaining the Weber thesis. Inadditon, I provide an annotated bibliography of selected scholarly ruminatons onWeber’s work in general and the Protestant Ethic thesis in partcular.