"One line of theory which I would like to look at more is that men have the Protestant ethic of going out to work to make money and not to enjoy it," Simon Easton, co-author of the report said.

调查报告的撰写者之一西蒙伊斯顿说：“我想深入探讨的一个说法是男性对于工作的态度带有一种新教的观念，他们认为工作是为了赚钱而不是从中获得快乐。”

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The best-known was devised by Max Weber, a father of modern sociology, who drew a connection between the Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism.

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Nor is it the willingness to go onto part-time working to preserve jobs in the downturn, the Protestant work ethic, the large manufacturing sector or any of the other things that people are musing about.

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But I still believe a crucial foundation of the American dream is that unfashionable belief called the Protestant work ethic.

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