Open AccessPOLISH AND EUROPEAN ECONOMIC CULTURE – A COMPARISON
Author(s) -
Izabela Ścibiorska-Kowalczyk
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
studies and scientific researches. economics edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2344-1321
pISSN - 2066-561X
DOI - 10.29358/sceco.v0i18.187
Subject(s) - enculturation , unemployment , population , globalization , cultural globalization , cultural heritage , acculturation , sociology , political science , development economics , economics , economic growth , market economy , demography , law , ethnic group , anthropology
The term "economic culture" describes historically shaped elements in the general culture of population, concerning values recognized and desired by a particular community, relating to the management and to the economic system of the states. The most important economic cultural behaviors include: awareness of economic choices, attitudes and behaviors of economic choices, the rules of the economic game. There is a theory which assumes that the globalization of the economy will lead to the emergence of a single, common to the whole world culture through enculturation, which is defined as a gradual process of growing of the individual (or group) into the culture or cultures through assimilation of cultural heritage of the surrounding community. More inculturation can be understood as a process of movement between different cultures come into contact and the transmission of cultural patterns. The article is an attempt at presenting the Polish economic culture against the European background and identifying the differences. It discusses the impact of national history and religion on the present shape of economic life, with particular regard to its negative aspects, i.e. the relatively high level of bribery and unemployment or the negative personal attitudes.