【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】解析：The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is a book written by Max Weber, a German sociologist, economist, and politician. In the book, Weber wrote that capitalism in northern Europe evolved when the Protestant(particularly Calvinist)ethic influenced large numbers of people to engage in work in the secular, world, developing their own enterprises and engaging in trade and the accumulation of wealth for investment. In other words, the Protestant ethic was a force behind an unplanned and uncoordinated mass action that influenced the development of capitalism. This idea is also known as "the Weber thesis". Weber, however, rejected deterministic approaches, and presented the Protestant Ethic as merely one in a number of "elective affinities" leading toward capitalist modernity.