Abstract

ANGELONE, Juan Pablo. The Protestant Ethic and Democracy in America. Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, between Tocqueville and Max Weber. Sociológica (Méx.) [online]. 2020, vol.35, n.99, pp.67-95.  Epub Mar 09, 2021. ISSN 2007-8358.

Domingo Faustino Sarmiento thought that, together with the lack of racial mixing, the presence of Puritan and Quaker colonists in the United States was one of the contributing factors to the creation of a democratic political consciousness. This article systematizes this hypothesis and contrasts Sarmiento’s ideas with those of Alexis de Tocqueville about the relationship between Puritanism and democracy and with those of Max Weber about the relationship between religious ethics and the secular mentality. It also shows that the explanation based on the religious factor to a great degree relativizes the characteristic racialism of Sarmiento’s essays.

Keywords : Sarmiento; Tocqueville; Weber; Puritanism; Quakerism; United States; democratic political consciousness; racial mixing; racialism; spiritualism.

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