ABSTRACT
The United States represents one of the most crass examples of the assimilation of immigrant masses to a certain type, in this case, to Anglo-American bourgeois Protestantism. Except for specialists in areas such as music, where this type was unproductive, even the lone intellectual who arrived later had to adapt his special knowledge and methods to this general pattern. Weber's investigations of social and economic history have in America influenced only Roman agrarian history and the discussion of the genesis of capitalism. The Calvinistic-capitalistic discussion in America followed these main stages: at first, appreciative reports appeared, and some of them contained supplementary examples such as those by Abel, Fullerton, and Salomon. Weber's conceptions of particular forms of social organization came to be known relatively late. Its total epistemology in its broadest sense encountered the most ready acceptance for easily obvious reasons.
