The Journal of Social Psychology, February 1st, 1993
FURNHAM (1990) STATED that one of the few theories to span nearly all of the social sciences (anthropology, economics, psychology, and sociology) has been Weber's (1958) theory of the Protestant Work Ethic (PWE), an attempt to account for the origin of capitalism. Moreover, the PWE concept has been examined in many different societies and countries such as Taiwan, the Republic of China (Ma, 1986; Ma & Smith, 1985; Tang, 1990; Tang & Baumeister, 1984), Hong Kong (Ma, 1987), Malaysia (Furnham & Muhiudeen, 1984), New Zealand (Poulton & Ng, 1988), East Africa (Munroe & Munroe, 1986), the Caribbe...
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