The Protestant Ethic Turns 100: Essays on the Centenary of the Weber Thesis by William H. Swatos Jr & Lutz Kaelber

Author:William H. Swatos Jr & Lutz Kaelber [Swatos Jr, William H.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781317253341
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2016-01-08T05:00:00+00:00

Not only personal legitimation was at stake either, for it was especially these processes of sociation that counteracted the corrosive and invasive effects of capitalist culture so evident on the frontier, giving American democratic life its distinctive character. American democratic life was never a “sand pile” or a “mass fragmented into atoms,” Weber pointed out several times, but a highly varied and differentiated social order permeated with processes of sociation—group affiliations, voluntaristic attachments, and “‘exclusivities’ of every kind.”72 More generally, the combination of moral-religious, social and economic considerations was never far from Weber’s thoughts. His evocative comment about land speculators, homesteading, and community development seems to come straight from the tour of Muskogee:

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