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    usually refers to evangelical Protestant churches, and therefore to a certain part of Protestantism rather than to Protestantism as a whole. The English word...
    242 KB (26,290 words) - 00:30, 20 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
    comparative analysis of religion and society. Weber moved beyond Protestantism with his research but would continue research into sociology of religion within...
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    Sociology is the scientific study of human society that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction...
    156 KB (17,643 words) - 15:46, 27 July 2024
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    States, White Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASP) is a sociological term which is often used to describe white Protestant Americans of Northwestern European descent...
    83 KB (8,936 words) - 18:32, 13 July 2024
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    Sociology as a scholarly discipline emerged, primarily out of Enlightenment thought, as a positivist science of society shortly after the French Revolution...
    98 KB (12,068 words) - 07:36, 26 July 2024
  • The Protestant work ethic, also known as the Calvinist work ethic or the Puritan work ethic, is a work ethic concept in sociology, economics, and history...
    32 KB (3,606 words) - 07:18, 15 July 2024
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    study of suicide rates among Catholic and Protestant populations, a foundational work of social research which served to distinguish sociology from other...
    54 KB (7,006 words) - 04:17, 15 May 2024
  • is published. Joseph Schumpeter's Theory of Economic Development is published. Ernst Troeltsch's Protestantism and Progress is published. Edward Alexander...
    6 KB (616 words) - 20:28, 19 July 2024
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    "ecumenical Protestantism" (especially outside the United States). While in 1970 the mainline Protestant churches claimed most Protestants and more than...
    80 KB (7,845 words) - 07:35, 14 July 2024
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    Jean Baubérot (category Knights of the Legion of Honour)
    specializing in sociology of religions. He is the founder of the sociology of secularism. After holding the chair of "History and Sociology of Protestantism" (1978–1990)...
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  • of India: The Sociology of Hinduism and Buddhism is a book on the sociology of religion written by Max Weber, a German economist and sociologist of the...
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    text related to this article: Le Suicide (Durkheim) Suicide: A Study in Sociology (French: Le Suicide: Étude de sociologie) is an 1897 book written by French...
    17 KB (1,964 words) - 12:24, 26 July 2024
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    Economic sociology is the study of the social cause and effect of various economic phenomena. The field can be broadly divided into a classical period...
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  • In sociology, the term rationalization was coined by Max Weber, a German sociologist, jurist, and economist. Rationalization (or rationalisation) is the...
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    Protestantism is the largest grouping of Christians in the United States, with its combined denominations collectively comprising about 43% of the country's...
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    Émile Durkheim (category Articles with Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy links)
    of suicides in Catholic and Protestant groups. Durkheim's first major sociological work was De la division du travail social (1893; The Division of Labour...
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  • and the authority of the Catholic Church. Towards the end of the Renaissance, the Reformation marked the beginning of Protestantism and in turn resulted...
    238 KB (28,855 words) - 01:28, 29 July 2024
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    Anomie (category Deviance (sociology))
    claim that Protestantism appeals more to women: These outcomes contradict the theory that Protestantism responds to the spiritual needs of the poor (Shaull...
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    In sociology, authority is the legitimate or socially approved power which one person or a group possesses and practices over another. The element of legitimacy...
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    were Protestant Christians who did not "conform" to the governance and usages of the state church in England, and in Wales until 1914, the Church of England...
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