Americans’ propensity to work hard has often been attributed to the so-called Protestant work ethic. That term comes from the German sociologist Max Weber, who argued in the early 1900s that ...

The idea that Protestants work harder and build stronger economies than Catholics is more than 100 years old. First proposed by German sociologist Max Weber, the "Protestant work ethic" has been ...

For generations, the “Protestant work ethic” was used to offend the non-Protestant (mainly, more recent immigrants) by suggesting that it was a purely Protestant quality (“The Protestant work ethic ...

A strong belief in the Protestant Work Ethic might underpin the decision-making of many people choosing ‘natural’ approaches to healthcare, new research suggests. Academics say their paper, published ...

America’s vaunted Protestant work ethic is getting a makeover: now it might be more of a secular or atheist work ethic. A new study has found an inverse relationship between the religiosity of a state ...

Written in 1905, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber argues that certain aspects of Protestantism, particularly the belief in a calling and predestination, fostered a ...

Undergrads studying modern capitalism are usually assigned Max Weber's famous essay. But our own ideas about the "Protestant work ethic" rest on a misreading of Weber's. Research defining grit as ...

Before the Industrial Revolution, people slept in two intervals of about four hours each, bridged by a period of "quiet wakefulness." According to historian Roger Ekirch of the University of Virginia, ...

The basic principle of Samuel Huntington’s patriotism: never recognize that anything of substance comes from somewhere besides Anglo-Protestantanism. Have you ever felt bewildered by the question of ...

A strong belief in the Protestant Work Ethic might underpin the decision-making of many people choosing 'natural' approaches to healthcare, new research suggests. Academics say their paper identifies ...