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Question: Weber said that the 'spirit of capitalism' could be traced back to:
- the movement towards religious pluralism
- inspirational Protestant groups who revived religious ideas
- the fall of feudalism and the rise of industrialism
- the introduction of paper currency in the Middle Ages
- new religious movements who rejected traditional forms of labour
- the spread of secularism in modern society
- Calvinists who engaged in ascetic practices to gain signs of salvation
- the expansion of trade during the Renaissance
- the development of the scientific method during the Enlightenment
- the birth of democracy in ancient Greece
Our answer: G. Calvinists who engaged in ascetic practices to gain signs of salvation Source quote machine-checked (exact quote)
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Wikipedia, "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protestant_Ethic_and_the_Spirit_of_Capitalism
“In the book, Weber wrote that capitalism in Northern Europe evolved when the Protestant (particularly Calvinist) ethic influenced large numbers of people to engage in work in the secular world, developing their own enterprises and engaging in trade and the accumulation of wealth for investment.”
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https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/weber/protestant-ethic/
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