protestant ethic

基本解释

The best-known was devised by Max Weber, a father of modern sociology, who drew a connection between the Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism.
现代社会学之父马克思·韦伯做了最有名的设计，他描写了新教道德和资本主义精神的关系。
Of the many proposed solutions to that riddle （technology, geography, the Protestant ethic） the current favourite is rather bland in the abstract: “institutions”.
对此疑问，经济学家给出了众多解释（涉及技术、地理甚至新教教义等方面），而时下最受认可的解释当属相当枯燥的“制度”说。
"One line of theory which I would like to look at more is that men have the Protestant ethic of going out to work to make money and not to enjoy it," Simon Easton, co-author of the report said。
调查报告的撰写者之一西蒙•伊斯顿说：“我想深入探讨的一个说法是男性对于工作的态度带有一种新教的观念，他们认为工作是为了赚钱而不是从中获得快乐。”
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The industrial revolution in America was driven by a bourgeois Protestant ethic that celebrated work and frowned on self-indulgence.
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The best-known was devised by Max Weber, a father of modern sociology, who drew a connection between the Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism.
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新教伦理
With the analysis of Weberian theory and Weberian proposition, the first chapter claims that as the cornerstone of the study on spiritual modernization, Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism provides an analysis to the relationship between the Chinese religion and capitalism obviously based on the Western-centralism.
其中第一章分析韦伯理论和“韦伯命题”。文章认为，尽管韦伯的《新教伦理与资本主义精神》是文化现代化研究的开山之作，但其对中国宗教与资本主义之间关系的：考察却带有明显的西方中心色彩。