Puritanism, Pietism, and Science

I his prolegomena to a cultural sociolc^y Alfred Weber has discriminated between the processes of society, culture, and civilization.* Since his primary inter^t lay in differentiating these categories of sociological phenomena, Weber in large measure ignored their specific inter-relationships; a field of study which is fundamental for the sociol«^ist. It is precisely this interaction between certain elements of culture and civilization, with especial reference to seventeenth-century England, which constitutes the object-matter of the present essay.