Interpretivist

• Weber


  The Protestant Work Ethic and Spirit of Capitalism

  Social behaviour is best understood by examining the meaning which people, as social actors, place on events and ideas
• Eisenstadt


  Capitalism occured in Catholic countries before Protestant reformation
• Tawney


  Scoiety had already developed in a capitalist direction:

  • New technology
  • Capitalist class
  • Adopted Calvinism
• Berger


  Concerned with modernity and meanings. Geographical mobility and electronic community gives people awareness of alternative social worlds.
• Stark and Bainbridge


  Unideal types. Reject typology