consciousness and behavior; the accumulation of all social experience; the economic
integration of society based on certain value systems; consolidation of economic ties
and forms of communication; personal socialization and development in various
economic activities.
Economic culture manifests itself in people's economic interactions filling them
with special content. Economic culture reflects the most persistent and repetitive
elements of these interactions that contribute to the reproduction of their institutional
and personal forms. Economic culture records certain patterns of economic interaction
according to the rules, norms and methods of formation of individual and collective
consciousness and behavior.
Socio-economic changes and the socially oriented Ukrainian economy set the
objective of formation a market economic culture among young people, which would
promote their economic activities and allow assessing them in terms of social
orientation and moral value, rather than economic value.
The transition of Ukraine to market relations promotes personal freedom,
facilitates the satisfaction of peoples' social, economic and spiritual interests and forms
the basis for the growth of national wealth. In this process, the leading role is played
by the education system, because human culture is the result of education and training.
Economic culture is a crossover phenomenon, which borders on the economic
and social realities. From the perspective of sociology, economic culture is considered
as a social value, which requires a corresponding theoretical and methodological
approach.
In the works of Ukrainian scholars, economic culture is defined as: a social value
characterized by a combination of economic knowledge, economic thinking,
professional and practical skills, law-abidingness and the degree of inclusion in
economic activity, which determine the business features (initiative, entrepreneurship,
respect for others' property) [2]; as a set of material and spiritual achievements of
people in various socio-economic activities [3]; as a result of material and spiritual
creativity, the realization of material interests, improvement of living conditions and
spiritual growth of man [4].
Economic culture is the result of general economic practice and leads to the
formation of stable norms and rules of economic interaction, which facilitate the
transfer of accumulated experience. Thus, economic culture is a mechanism for the
reproduction and development of economic relations of society and an individual in a
variety of activities and forms. Economic culture is dissolved in the whole set of
economic relations, which are not only the manifestations, but also the ways of
existence of culture. Therefore, economic culture characterizes the economic relations,
which determine the nature of the individual and their activities, rather than the level
of the individual's economic development or activities.
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