The Destiny of Modern Societies

The Calvinist Predestination of a New Society

Haymarket Books
Milan Zafirovski
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Examining the impact of Calvinism on modern society, The Destiny of Modern Societies extends the previous limits of Weberian analysis. By analyzing how Calvinism has determined most contemporary social institutions in America, it illustrates the Calvinist societal "predestination" of American society as a whole.

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Milan Zafirovski is on the faculty in the Department of Sociology at University of North Texas. His research interests are interdisciplinary and include political sociology/economy, economic sociology, social stratification and theory. He is the author of A Primer On Economic Sociology: The Duality Of Structure In Markets, Exchange, Action and Social Structure: Elements of Economic Sociology, and Liberal Modernity and Its Advisories.  Recent articles have appears in several journals, including Critical Sociology, Journal of Socio-Economics, Journal of Classical Economics, International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, and American Sociologist.