Protestant sects shattered kin-based bonds enabling modern economy

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

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in how trust structures scale beyond kin/tribe — relevant to Hobbesian order and monitoring in the Blindness analysis.

Related

• Protestant ethics shattered kinship bonds that blocked modern economies (similarity 0.95)
• Ethical religions broke kinship bonds to enable modern economic development (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Ethical religions broke kinship bonds to enable modern economic development #corroborates (0.92) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 1018
• Weber built Protestantism and capitalism as one-sided ideal types against Marxist reductionism #responds-to (0.75) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 334