layed an important role in changing the ideals of almost every businessman of modern times. How did this happen? How could a religious sect develop a set of Ethics that became applicable to the way people live their lives today? It is this tie that we are interested in, and ultimately, we will prove that through Weber’s historical analysis of an ideal developed by the Protestants of yesteryear, through this ideal’s application to the way people lived their lives during the Industrial Era, and by using a specific exemplary in the form of a great Industrialist, can an understanding be made in how it came to be that Capitalism became a prominent term and ideal people adhere to in the modern age.
An inference to be made from Max Weber’s text, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, is that an adult American business man of modern age lives in a world that place
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