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What kind of book is the Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism written by Weber?
The author of Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism is Weber. Weber devoted his life to investigating the economic ethics of the world's religions and exploring the internal relationship between the spiritual and cultural temperament of the world's major nationalities and their social and economic development from a comparative perspective. Through the study of religious sociology, Weber tried to answer why a cultural phenomenon with universal significance and value appeared in western civilization and only appeared in western civilization. What events should this phenomenon be attributed to? Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism is the first monograph in Weber's series on cultural comparison, and it is also an anthology of religious sociology.

In his book, Weber discusses the Protestant ethics that accompanied the religious reform in Europe and its influence on the origin of modern capitalism and the whole rationalization process in the West. The book was originally published in the seventh and eleventh volumes of Social Science and Social Politics Literature (1904- 1905) and was published in two parts. 1920 is republished as the first part of the sociology of religion paper. In the new version, Weber made many changes, added a lot of new materials to the notes, and answered various criticisms. Max Weber (German: Max Weber,1864 April 21-1920 June14), a famous German sociologist, political scientist, economist and philosopher, is one of the most vital and influential thinkers in modern times. Weber first started his teaching career at the University of Berlin, and later taught at universities such as Vienna University and Munich University. He represented Germany at the Versailles Conference and participated in the drafting and design of the Constitution of Weimar Republic, which had a great influence on German political circles at that time. He made outstanding contributions to the establishment of western classical management theory, was recognized as one of the most important founders of modern sociology and public administration, and was called "the father of organization theory" by later generations.