SOCIAL CHANGE

Question 1

CALVINISM-WEBER

Answer 1

• nothing that they could do to change their fate in the afterlife
  1) Told to believe in predestination:god has already chosen which souls are going to heaven and which are going to hell before they are born
  2) God is a divine transcendence: far greater than any human
  3) Calvin followers experienced salvation panic:how do they know what happens to them after they die
  4) Vocation:skill they were good at
• -god wanted his followers to focus on the world they lived in now not the world they would live in after death
• Followers had a protestant work ethic:had to be self disciplined and live a simple lifestyle,work hard and be careful with money and not indulge in distractions
• calvinists began to get enough wealth to invest in technological advancements overseeing the creating of factories
• however there was also a darkside as getting involved in the slave trade

Question 2

evaluation of calvinism

Answer 2

capitalism had already occurred before calvinism