Your grade on Weber will be based on writing up 17 interpretive/analytical questions. Such questions take the form of, When Weber writes “…..” am I correct to interpret this to mean …….? Then prorovide a little discussion of this or a comment or more – can be as short as one sentence, depends on what you want to say and how you say it. If you have not completed the assignment by April 9, submit what you have completed.
From pages 8-20 of the Protestant Ethic reading (my excerpts), please write up 17 questions as follows:
Please write a total of 17 interpretive/analytical questions = where you say your interpretation plus any thoughts:
For page 8, Read: Where it says “Calvinism…” (highlighted in Green) reread and ask 5 iquestions (just for this page 8, the highlighted section).
For the reading on p 8-9 Q: Address this question: What from these pages reminds you of Durkheim? Explain your answer.
For the reading on p. 11, write 1 interpretive /explanation/analytical q of top paragraph.
For the reading on p 12, next to last paragraph – 1 interpretive/analytical question
For the reading on p 16, from beginning with “Waste of time …” (long paragraph) write two (2) intepretive/analytical questions.
For the reading on p. 18 – two interpretive/analytical questions
For the reading p. 20 – 5 interpretive/analytical questions:
1 – from reading that begins “what became characteristic attitude of the modern worker and the characteristic attitude of the businessmen”
1 – from the paragraph “The Puritan wanted…
3 – from the last 2 paragraphs.
**IMPORTANT**
One student has contacted me to say that the page numbers on his copy do not correspond to what I indicated, for example, where I say p 16 beginnin with Waster of Time, he finds on p. 15. So I will provide words, in case the page numbering does not correspond to what I posted.
For page 8, the reading begins below: (on p 8 and 9 of my copy, not sure of your copy – that you look at under Content)
Calvinism: The doctrine of predestination was its most characteristic dogma. p. 98
For the Church father of Lutheranism p. 102 it was an article of faith that grace was revocable and could be won again by penitent humility and faithful trust in
For p 8-9, the reading begins
Calvinism: The doctrine of predestination was its most characteristic dogma. p. 98
For the Church father of Lutheranism p. 102 it was an article of faith that grace was revocable and could be won again by penitent humility and faithful trust in the word of God and in the sacraments. With Calvin
and ends:
This makes labor in the service of impersonal social usefulness appear to promote the glory of God and hence to be willed by Him. p. 109.
The reading that begins on p. 11 in my copy that you need to find in your copy begins:
salvation. The religious believer can make himself sure of his state of grace either in that he feels himself to be the vessel of the Holy Spirit (p. 113) or the tool of the divine will (p. 114 of Giddens, p67 of Kalberg version). In the
The reading, p 12, next to last paragraph, find on your copy where it begins: Calvinism added something positive to this, the idea of [To help you with this, you might re-read, in the paragraph above this one: “The significance…every Christina had to be a monk all his life.”]
On my p 16 – might be on a different page on your copy (maybe p. 15): find “Waste of time…For the reading on p 16, from beginning with “Waste of time …” (long paragraph) write two (2) intepretive/analytical questions.
Find in your copy what appears on my copy on page 18:
“morality and the anti-authoritarian ascetic conventicles, just as today capitalistic society tends to protect those willing to work against the class morality of the proletariat and the anti-authoritarian trade union.
For the Puritans, sport was accepted if it served a rational purpose, that of recreation necessary for physical efficiency. But as a means for…”
and ends:
p. 173 bottom – The early history of the North American Colonies is dominated by the sharp contrast of the adventure capitalists who wanted to set up plantations with the labor of indentured servants and live as feudal lords, and the specifically middle-class outlook of the Puritans.
For the reading p 20, I indicated the words to look for. Here are the words that begin and end the last two paragraphs:
Begins: Material goods have gained a
Ends: civilization never before achieved.” p. 182
