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Weber argued that the specific cultural values of this religious group led them to act in a very particular way that made sense to them: to work hard, and rather than spend their financial rewards, to plough them back into their businesses- back into their “calling”. This meaningful set of motivations, this “Protestant ethic”, was responsible for the creation of what Weber termed “the spirit of capitalism”. Not actually capitalist society as such, but the necessary cultural ideas needed for others to come along and use them as the basis of meaningful interaction. In this way the values of a small group- the Calvinists- accidentally led to the establishment of a whole society based on the pursuit of profit through reinvestment. Later the capitalist economic idea spread across the globe- from simple yet highly meaningful cultural values. Weber used this historical example to illustrate, in contradiction to Marx, that history cannot be predicted, and that culture us created and given meaning by those involved in its production.
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