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What exactly is Weber's Protestant Ethic Thesis? Contemporary Sociology regards Max Weber as one of its 'founding fathers', and today, over eighty years after his death, Weber's writings are still celebrated as being among the most influential sociological material. As an academic of a wide variety of subjects, Weber has contributed to a range of sociological issues, including politics; religion; modernity; the relationship between society and economics; bureaucracy and his widely recognised theory of rationalization. Arguably his most famous piece of work, developed in two journal articles in 1904-05, is The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. The following discussion aims to explain the precise argument developed by Weber regarding Protestantism and its links with modern capitalism. Firstly, I will provide a statement of the basic argument. I will address the main sociological concepts that are central to Weber's thesis, and which I feel are crucial to our...

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