The Relationship between the Protestant Ethic and Social Class for Afro-Caribbeans and Afro-Americans

Abstract

A comparison of the endorsement patterns on the Protestant Ethic scale indicated that the mean for 20 Afro-Caribbeans exceeded that of 22 Afro-Americans. However, middle-class individuals from the latter group gave most favorable endorsements of the items.

A Factor Analytic Study of the Protestant Work Ethic

“…Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at http://www.tandfonline.com/ page/terms-and-conditions 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 Caribbean islands (Gonsalves & Bernard, 1983), South Africa (Bluen & Barling, 1983), Great Britain (Furnham, 1984a(Furnham, , 1984b(Furnham, , 1989Furnham & Muhiudeen, 1984), and the United States (Greenberg, 1977(Greenberg, , 1978Tang, 1989;Tang & Baumeister, 1984). McClelland (1961), for example, used the PWE theory in psychology to examine the link between Protestantism and capitalism.…”

The Protestant Work Ethic and Just World Beliefs in Great Britain and India

“…By far the most popular measure of PWE has been the h4irels and Garrett (1971) questionnaire which has been used in Aficu: Heaven (1980), Philbrick (1976, Vandewiele and Philbrick (1976); America: Beit-Hallahmi (1979), Dorst, Leon, andPhilbrick (1978), Eisenberger and Shank (1985), Ganster (1980;1981), Goiten and Rosenberg (1977), Gonsalves and Bernard (1983), Greenberg (1977;1978;1979), Hooker and Ventis (1982), Iso-Ahola and Buttimer (1982), Kidron (1978), Lied andPritchard (1976), MacDonald (1971), Merrens and Garrett (1975), Stake (1983), Waters et al (1975);Australia: Feather (1982;; Belgium: Rossell (1986);Britain: Breakwell andFife-Schaw (1987), Furnham (1983;1984a;c;1985a;1987), Wagstaff (1983); Israel: Shamir (1985;; Malaysia: Furnham and Muhuideen (1984); Taiwan: Ma (1986); West Indies: Furnham (1991).…”

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“…Psychology is my disciplinary and intellectual home, but my academic publications have urgently bypassed silo disciplinary lanes into necessary, multidisciplinary lens (Gonsalves, 1986, Gonsalves-Domond 2020. As a preamble to my introduction and a contextual placeholder, I arrive at the quintessential threshold of this issue of promoting cross-cultural research on the Caribbean as an academician who has not only been shaped through the prism of my immigrant, diasporic, Afro-Jamaican experiences, but concurrently ferreting out meaning within overlapping and nested transcultural lens.…”

“…Therefore, an authentic knowledge-production strategy must interrogate vestiges of the subjugated past, invert Eurocentric, canonical beliefs and assertions, and eliminate uncritical allegiances to models that are anachronistic, misogynous, classist, reductionistic, and/or myopic. In fact, knowledge-production especially when conducted by culturally-rooted researchers with a deep structural understanding and respect embraced by a culturally relativist approach can yield qualitatively-rich data (Gonsalves-Domond 1985, 2002, Gonsalves and Bernard 1983, Berry 2008, Berry et al 1992.…”