![]() ![]() ![]() In the Middle Ages, the only real vocation-the only kind of work one ever felt called to do-was that of a priest, a monk, or a nun. Weber’s narrative of capitalism’s emergence begins in the sixteenth century when Luther expanded the concept of a vocation or a “calling” beyond its medieval connotations. Capitalism’s religious roots later became unrecognizable. Protestantism did not cause capitalism, but rather capitalism emerged as the accidental byproduct of certain Protestant dispositions. In The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, sociologist Max Weber argues that capitalism developed hand in hand with a particular Protestant attitude toward work, that is, the “Protestant ethic,” associated with asceticism, diligence, thrift, punctuality, and austerity. Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905) ![]()
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