Exam 44: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

Identify two sins that would have been worthy of moral condemnation for Calvinists.

The idea of the calling was derived from ______.

According to Thomas Aquinas, labor was only necessary for the maintenance of the individual and ______.

Inactive contemplation is reprehensible if it is at the expense of ______.

Weber asserts that the deadliest of sins is ______.

The most consistent influence on the development of a rational bourgeois life is the ______.

Which religion preceded the expansion of English industry toward the end of the eighteenth century?

Identify two factors in the development of rational industrial organization.

Which of the following now has an inexorable power over the lives of individuals?

Weber examines how changes in the institution of religion influenced ______.

Explain how Protestant asceticism influenced the development of a capitalist economic system.

What does Weber claim are the two important factors in the development of the capitalist enterprise?

According to Weber, the separation of business from the ______ completely dominates modern economic life.

The rational capitalistic organiza?tion of free labor is known as ______.

Which two early Protestant world views most influenced the development of a capitalist economic system?