In order for a person to change the program of his actions, he must, except in cases of direct physical coercion, first of all, change the way of his thoughts. Such changes to the programme of action may: purposefully organized by the individual himself (for example, in the process of education); be a natural consequence […]
Category: Economic Sociology
Economic thinking as a mechanism for the formation of various types of economic behavior
To answer the question of how economic thinking functions, we will simulate the mental processes as a result of which an individual forms and puts into practice a particular type of economic behavior. Starting this work, it is necessary to emphasize that any model is an abstraction that cannot be absolutized and which cannot be […]
Psycho-emotional features of economic thinking and their impact on economic behavior
Economic sociology, interacting with economic psychology, considers a person who is economic not only as an individual thinking, weighing, calculating, but also feeling, experiencing, expressing his attitude to facts, phenomena, events, other people in the form of emotions. What are emotions and how do they affect economic (i.e., rational by definition) human behavior? Emotions are […]
Economic culture and its role in the regulation of economic behavior
This happened during a bilateral business meeting between businessmen from Russia and Tunisia. The discussion of the issues on the agenda took its course, apparently, in a rather tense mode. In the process of work, one of the representatives of the Russian delegation asked the head of the group for a lighter, to which he […]
Social stereotypes of economic thinking and their impact on economic behavior
Human thinking is the product of millions of years of evolution based on the struggle for existence. In the process of this fierce struggle, the organization of thinking was improved, those qualities that ensured the survival of man were fixed and reproduced. Abstract-figurative thinking, capable of operating with classes of objects, developed, the conceptual apparatus […]