Protestant ethics shattered kinship bonds that blocked modern economies

Evidence

Weber argued that “the great achievement of the ethical religions, above all the ethical and asceticist sects of Protestantism …, [was] to shatter the fetters of the kin” and that, therefore, China did not develop a modern economy on its own. — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 1018 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Weber argued that “the great achievement of the ethical religions, above all the ethical and asceticist sects of Protestantism …, [was] to shatter the fetters of the kin” and that, therefore, China did not develop a modern economy on its own. — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 1018 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

Related

• Protestant sects shattered kin-based bonds enabling modern economy (similarity 0.95)
• Kin-based solidarity in China hindered modern capitalist development (similarity 0.85)
• Ethical religions broke kinship bonds to enable modern economic development (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Protestant sects shattered kin-based bonds enabling modern economy #corroborates (0.98) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 1018
• Ethical religions broke kinship bonds to enable modern economic development #expands (0.90) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 1018
• Kin-based solidarity in China hindered modern capitalist development #exemplifies (0.85)
• Family labour fails where kinship organization fails to migrate #qualifies (0.80) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2377
• Kinship-based trust fails when its sanctioning institutions do not migrate #qualifies (0.80) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2428
• Capitalism extended feudal relations rather than negating them #contradicts (0.75) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 124
• Calvinism’s economic ethic is really classical republicanism, not Protestantism #complicates (0.75) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1862