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Sociológica (México)
versão On-line ISSN 2007-8358versão impressa ISSN 0187-0173
Sociológica (Méx.) vol.20 no.59 Ciudad de México Set./Dez. 2005
Artículos de investigación
Cien años de debate en torno a la tesis weberiana sobre la ética protestante
* Profesor de El Colegio de México, México. Correo electrónico: fgilvillegas2002@yahoo.com.mx.
Adelanto de una más amplia investigación, este artículo ofrece como muestra algunas malas lecturas a las que se prestó la tesis weberiana sobre la ética protestante durante la década de los sesenta, cuando se intentó extrapolarla a casos no contemplados por el propio Weber o que caían fuera de los parámetros espacio-temporales expresamente fijados por él para juzgar la validez de su tesis. Con los ejemplos seleccionados se demuestra lo fructífero de la tesis weberiana como fuente de inspiración para nuevas investigaciones, pero también la irrelevancia de éstas para confirmar o refutar la validez intrínseca de la tesis misma.
Palabras clave: Afinidades electivas; causalidad; tipo ideal; modernización; sociedad adquisitiva; protestantismo; capitalismo
Advancing materials from a broader research project, this article offers a sam-ple of some erroneous readings of Weber’s thesis about the Protestant ethic produced during the 1960s when an attempt was made to extrapolate it to cases not dealt with by Weber himself or that fell outside of the time-space parameters that he expressly established for judging his hypothesis’s validity. The examples selected show how fruitful Weber’s hypothesis is as a source of inspiration for new research, but also how irrelevant the latter is for confirming or refuting the intrinsic validity of the hypothesis itself.
Key words: elective affinities; causality; ideal type; modernization; acquisi-tive society; Protestantism; capitalism
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Recibido: 04 de Octubre de 2004; Aprobado: 30 de Marzo de 2005
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