Studies On Economic Culture In Society Transformation

This dissertation focuses on economic culture in the process of the social transformation. Economic culture is firmly connected with the relations between economy and culture, but they are different not only in the theory, but also in the practice. Economic culture means a special kind of culture which relates to a lot of things of the society, such as economy, culture, science and technology, politics, constitution, systems, etc. The key meanings of economic culture are reflections, evaluations even ideological analysis of the economic activities and economic life process.The basic theme of this dissertation is to dig into the primary aspects of the economic culture, for example, connotations, contents, functions, characteristics, especially common and special points of economic culture of major influential peoples and countries in the world. Surrounding the relations of economy and culture, of economic culture and social transformation, the dissertation attempts to reveal the real formation and development process of the economic culture in the period of modern and present times, to reveal that economic culture has played an important role in the social development and transformation. The general principle of study methods in this dissertation is to abide by historical materialism of Marxism.The structure of this dissertation is organized with the logical order for "What, Why and How". In detail, The Introduction and Chapter 1 mainly explain what the economic culture is, containing concepts, connotations and contents, etc, namely, by making a statement of study situations in the past and present, overseas and home, to establish a solid existence of a type of culture. Chapter 2-4 answers why economic culture appears, analyzing the fields of social psychology, times spirit, economic history, moral evolution, industry development, and so on. Part "How" includes two meanings, How economic culture works and How it should be dealt with. Chapter 5-7 aims at first meaning, to give the three relations of economic culture with ideology, cultural economy and total cultural structure. Chapter 8 tells what should be done to make economic culture work in this society smoothly and beneficially.In the different development stage of the society, there are many complicated categories of cultures, and the cultural structure consisted of those cultures is also different; the influence of each culture is not the same. One or two cultures are powerful, and some are weak even very weak. Which culture matters more strongly than other cultures depends on the conditions of the era. These cultures are not only different and conflicted, but also connected and mixed each other. In the war and revolution times, political and military culture is popular, but in the peaceful times or economic development periods, economic and business culture is popular. In China, with wide and deep development of reform and opening, economic culture affects the social life more and more deeply.Generally speaking, China is a culture-oriented and culture-dominated society. But the question is what kind of culture really controls the society. In the traditional Chinese society, political culture and moral culture are so strong that people ignore the significance of economy and economics. But in the modern society, what influences all people powerfully everyday are business, economy, trade and finance. Economic life has changed culture conceptions and culture types. The cultural meaning and significance of economy, economics, finance even industry and commerce are found. This is the social background of the economic culture. Although different society in different times has different cultural value, belief and ideals, a lot of fundamental values are common and same, so they can be existed together.In fact, economic culture has a double-bladed effect to the economy and society. although economic culture develops quickly in modern society, it has certain negative functions such as consumerism, economic invasion, so it is necessary to guide and control the development of economic culture to prompt the healthy development of the economy and quick progress of the society.