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The article presents a summery to a paper that was delivered in the fifty-first and fifty-second annual meeting of the American Sociological Society. Max Weber's thesis propounded that Protestants and Catholics display differential attitudes toward professional and occupational choices and, thus, prefer different fields of learning when entering institutes of higher education. Contrary to Weber's thesis it was found that a somewhat larger percentage of Catholics than of Protestants had selected a business studies program. Significant differences, however, were found with regard to the following background factors: Only one-third of the Catholic, but more than half of the Protestant parents had a college education.