Modernization is therefore generally understood as the process in which people adopt new, more productive ways and means in almost all economic sectors. In order to sustain or uphold these shifts in the economic levels there is need to have a value system that gives emphasis to rationality, specialization, efficiency, cosmopolitanism as well as a keen interest in the prospective of having a future that is better than the current world in terms of the social as well as the material status (Richard Brown, 1975)
He further notes that modernization was simply an increased rationalization. He notes that in the modernized world, everything that people depend upon is controlled by large capitalist bureaucratic organization (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2007)
Weber actually insists that "the Catholics show a stronger propensity to remain in their crafts, that is they more often become master craftsmen, whereas the Protestants are attracted to a larger extent into the factories in order to fill the upper ranks of skilled labor and administrative positions." (Weber 38) One of the main themes Weber wants to discuss in this chapter relates to how protestant principles have a lot of parallels in capitalist ideas
Weber's writings placed a strong stress upon the cultural values that had come into the forefront of the social consciousness as the result of the Industrial Revolution in Europe during the 19th century, specifically that of the work ethic of Protestantism that separated religion and spiritual, private life from the secular world of the workforce. (Bartle, "Community Empowerment: Lecture notes -- Max Weber," 2006) Marx tended to subsume all religion into a similar ideological category
Weber's writings placed a strong stress upon the cultural values that had come into the forefront of the social consciousness as the result of the Industrial Revolution in Europe during the 19th century, specifically that of the work ethic of Protestantism that separated religion and spiritual, private life from the secular world of the workforce. (Bartle, "Community Empowerment: Lecture notes -- Max Weber," 2006) Marx tended to subsume all religion into a similar ideological category