Этнопсихологическая специфика экономического сознания предпринимателей

Abstract

This article presents an analysis of the concept of economic consciousness and the impact on it of national psychological characteristics. The category of entrepreneurs chosen as respondents is explained by their role as bearers of new socio-economic relations and influence on the effectiveness of socioeconomic reforms in the country. The purpose of the study was to identify differences in economic consciousness, determined by national psychological characteristics, and to study the specifics of their manifestation in economic behavior. Under the economic consciousness is understood the process and the result of knowledge of economic relations as a factor of behavior of different social groups, as a result of reflection of the conditions of economic life of the individual. It is methodologically proved that the main reason underlying interethnic differences of mentality is the culture acting as a regulatory function, to some extent determining the behavior of people, determining the choice of economic models. On the basis of the theory of cultural dimensions has been proposed the algorithm of the comparative analysis of the specificity of manifestations of national-psychological features of economic consciousness and economic behavior. The results of the study confirmed the differentiation of the cluster of verbal characteristics of economic categories in the minds of respondents of Kazakh and Russian nationality, the difference in the value structure of entrepreneurs, in the level of internality of economic relations and their modality; in personal constructs describing the economic representations of Kazakhs and Russians.

Key words: national psychological features, economic consciousness, economic behavior, parameters of national culture.