Status Updates From الثقافات وقيم التقدم

There are sources but nowhere near a quarter of enough for the amount of affirmations in theses texts*

Text 1 and 2 of part 1 were abyssimal and why the heck is there no sources ??? Anywhere ??? Who calls that scientific literature ???

Wtf am i reading i hope im wrong

The norms that produce social capital, by contrast, must substantively in- clude virtues like truth telling, meeting obligations, and reciprocity. Not sur- prisingly, these norms overlap to a significant degree with those Puritan values that Max Weber found critical to the development of Western capital- ism in his book The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.

Fukuyama: Social capital can be defined simply as an instantiated set of informal values or norms shared among members of a group that permits them to cooperate with one another. If members of the group come to expect that others will behave reliably and honestly, then they will come to trust one another. Trust acts like a lubricant that makes any group or organization run more efficiently.

A similar prestige scale characterized Christendom until the Reformation. However, as Max Weber observed, the Reformation, and particularly the Calvinist interpretation of it, inverted the prestige scale, enshrining this work ethic.