... alive and well, or has it been replaced by a different Ethic? Develop your position in several well-supported paragraphs. The Protestant Ethic (work ethic) is alive and well in America today. We can see this in the fact that people still work many hours continuing to be torn between family and work ... . However the compulsion to work has clearly become a problem in modern industrial societies. People are working long hours, devoting ... Protestant Ethic as Weber would say it, was a religious calling and a duty commanded by God. Weber quotes the Bible as follows: "Gods commandment to Ada...

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... work to warn 1920's Americans of their behavior and how destructive it can be. Marxists believe very firmly in humanitarianism; they believe that as humans, we should look out for each other and care for each ... the characters have this value and they are corrupt, Fitzgerald is criticizing Capitalism as a system through its values. In being humanitarians, Socialists are opposed to any human being treated as a material thing. Because Capitalism is "founded on ... exchange and production, it forces the worker himself a thing to be bought and used" (Posnock 210). Often in Gatsby, human be...

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