General and specific patterns of transition economy

Despite the differences in the types of transition periods, it is possible to identify their most general patterns, which are inherent in any transition period in economic development. General regularities can be considered: combination of old and new elements and forms; economic disequilibrium with a possible slide into the general crisis state; the growth of […]

Types of transition periods

Transition periods are not a new phenomenon in the history of socio-economic development. There have been such periods before. It gives the ability to raise the question of the types of transition periods, their classification. Classification in science requires the allocation of the criterion by which it is carried out. However, the study of very […]

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 […]

The Third Stage of Economic Sociology

The third stage (from the late 70s to the present) is characterized in the literature as the stage of the “new economic sociology”. According to the American sociologist R. Svedberg, at this stage this direction acquires the character of “comparative macrosociology”. Its main features are the orientation to comparative studies between countries, the formulation of […]