ECONOMIC SOCIALIZATION AS A FACTOR IN BEHAVIORAL TRANSFORMATION IN UKRAINE IN THE CONTEXT OF EU INTEGRATION
Keywords:
economic and social integration, economic socialization, European Union, institutional capacity, labor resources, market economy, property rights, secondary socialization, self-development, value orientations.Abstract
This article is prepared based on the results of a study dedicated to revealing one of the sufficient conditions for the behavioral transformation of the Ukrainian population in the space of European coordinates, which is, in particular, economic socialization, which determines the success of economic activity among EU member states. In order to achieve the necessary changes in the behavioral transformation of the population of Ukraine in the context of its economic socialization, the study used as an information base the materials of surveys of value orientations by the international research center EVS/WVS, as well as a number of other international surveys, along with sociological surveys conducted by the Institute of Sociology of the NAS of Ukraine on changes in public morality, trust, access to work, financial status of families, and more. On their basis, key components that ensure transformational changes in people’s socialization were identified and developed, and a conceptual model of economic socialization of Ukrainian population in the context of Ukraine’s integration into the European Union was proposed.
JEL: I31; O15.
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