Deck 44: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

Question 1

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

A) the Occident
B) capitalism
C) the Ergasteria
D) culture

Answer 1

A

Question 2

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

A) spirituality
B) one's calling
C) petrification
D) material goods

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Weber asserts that the deadliest of sins is ______.

A) labor
B) lack of grace
C) money
D) wasting time

Answer 3

D

Question 4

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

A) Puritanism
B) Methodism
C) Taoism
D) Catholicism

Question 5

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

A) individual health
B) the economy
C) politics
D) warfare

Question 6

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

A) household
B) antiquity
C) marketplace
D) pleasure

Question 7

The idea of the calling was derived from ______.

A) Calvinism
B) aestheticism
C) Franklinism
D) rationalisim

Question 8

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

A) daily work
B) sexual temptation
C) capitalism
D) one's children

Question 9

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

A) God
B) education
C) sanity
D) community

Question 10

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

A) beati possidente
B) Puritan outlook
C) Quaker way of life
D) monastic impulse

Question 11

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

Question 12

Identify two factors in the development of rational industrial organization.

Question 13

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

Question 14

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

Question 15

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