Applying Weber : analysis of low and middle income Muslims in Singapore

• Main Author: Amirah Diyanah Kemat
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Economic development::Singapore; DRNTU::Humanities::Religions::Islam
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/43837
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This study is based on Max Weber’s (1958) thesis on The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism whereby he argued that there is an elective affinity between religious ethic and economic ethics. The religious ethic found in Protestants, particularly Calvinists, is through the concept of predest...