# Merton thesis

> English word · Proper noun

## Definitions
1. A theory that significant developments in the modern world have a positive correlation with Protestant pietism, similar to Weber's link between success and the Protestant ethic.

## Etymology
Proposed by Robert K. Merton in 1936.

## Source
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