Mishchenko O. Social and psychological determinants of the economic culture of dtudents' youth.

The dissertation is dedicated to the research of the one of the topical problems of the modern social psychology - social and psychological determinants of the economic culture of students' youth. On the basis of the theoretical analysis there has been defined the economic culture as a system of economic values in the society, that is a reflection of certain historical social and economic conditions and are defined by the corresponding image of the "economic person", which is carried by every historical economic culture in an implicit way. The image of the "economic person" is a normative standard of the economically successful person. There has been defined that economic culture of a personality is a system of psychological and economic characteristics of a personality that forms in the process of economic socialization due to internalization of the value essence of the "economic person". Existence of the levels of personality's economic culture, which are defined by the interaction of two components of the economic socialization process, is proved: by peculiarities of the economic values of the society on the one hand and by peculiarities of the motivation and need system of a personality, on the other hand. Two types of a personality's economic culture are determined: "culture of economic activity" and "culture of economic passivity". It has been established that the peculiarities of culture types are stipulated by social and economic conditions of personality's socialization and are determined by age stages of development.