In his book The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of
Capitalism, Max Weber brings together material published in the form of
two long articles in 1904 and 1905. In these articles, Weber tries to show the beginnings of
capitalism and to relate this to the spirit of the Reformation, that period when Protestantism developed, breaking away from the control of the Catholic Church and asserting not only a religious independence but a
different social view that would also have an influence in economic matters. Weber finds that there is a connection between being Protestant and being a business leader and an owner of capital--he says that statistics show this to be a fact in his own time and also to be a historical fact. Different