Marginality and commitment as hidden variables in the Jellinck/Weber/Merton theses on the Calvinist Ethic

1 March 1974

journal article
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Published by SAGE Publications in Current Sociology

Vol. 22 (1-3) , 279-297
https://doi.org/10.1177/001139217402200112

Abstract

This article is a modest and frankly speculative attempt to draw the atten tion to two variables which (a) could possibly be 'behind' the more tradi tional ones, such as asceticism, objectivity, efficiency, rationality and individualism mentioned as salient for the original development of rational capitalism, natural science and modern democracy, and (b) could possibly provide an interesting fit with sociological theory and the sociology of religion.

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