The Sociology of Max Weber's Religion and Cultural Determinism in the Problem of Modernization
The article considers Max Weber's theory of capitalism genesis to be an early analogy of the modernization conception. The article analyses such peculiarities of the theory mentioned in literature as cultural centrism, certain socio-philosophical and gnoseological contradiction. The author tries to prove that the use of the German sociologist's creative legacy as scientific grounds for different theories of "original" development of Russia and other non-Western countries is unsound.