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Which sociologist published a book in 1904 in which he noted that it was no mere coincidence that an overwhelming number of business leaders, owners of capital, and skilled workers were Protestants, not Catholics?

A. Emile Durkheim
B. Karl Marx
C. Friedrich Engels
D. Max Weber

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D

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Max Weber had four major texts on religion in a context of economic sociology. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism Weber claims that capitalism arose in Europe in part because of how the belief in predestination was understood by everyday English Puritans.

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