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Studien zur Genese rationaler Lebensführung und zum Sektentypus Max Webers
Ist Teil von
Zeitschrift für Soziologie, 2004-10, Vol.33 (5), p.418
Ort / Verlag
Stuttgart: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Erscheinungsjahr
2004
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This article starts from the question, if and to what extent Max Weber's thesis of the Protestant Ethic and his ideal type of the sect are suitable for analysing the religious mentality and social and economic behavior of Mennonite peasant families in South West Germany on the left bank of the Rhine between 1632 and 1850. After a critical appreciation of Weber's approach and a consideration of new concepts in the research on Mennonites the differences between Mennonites in South West Germany and the ideal type of the sect are pointed out and explained in respect to religious group formation, the structure of the organization and its offices, family roots and relationships in the religious community, and social inequality. The conclusion is that individualism and the rational way of life, which Max Weber attributed to all members of Protestant sects and which he thought be a crucial mental factor for the spirit of capitalism, was limited to group members with formal and informal leadership functions. The article puts forward the hypothesis that the genesis of a rational way of life results from dialectical processes involving endogeneous and exogeneous factors.