The sociological analysis of economic actions using the concept of economic habits: a qualitative study

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1 PhD in Sociology, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran

2 Professor, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran

10.22034/jeds.2025.64281.1831

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Exploring the structure of actors' economic thinking, which is influenced by social factors, is of great importance and is one of the important topics in economic sociology. This is necessary because it guides how actors make economic decisions and how they interpret and deal with socio-economic interactions and find meaning from them. Moreover, modeling economic thinking can be used to explain or predict some social actions. In order to present a local theory in this case, we have used and expanded Bourdieu's concept of economic habitus and we have introduced the concept of hidden agency. . Using the grounded theory method, theoretical sampling , in-depth interviews, observations, field discussions, and documents as tools, we presented a typology of economic habits, collected and produced data, and obtained the resulting paradigmatic model along with causal, interventional, contextual, strategic, and consequential factors. The research was conducted on married individuals aged 20 to 40 living in Mashhad. The four types of economic habits discovered in this study are: 1. Emotional-Feeling 2. Value-Belief 3. Rational-Situational 4. Profit-Seeking or Materialistic. Using three coding stages, the central category of "institutionalized mentality or internalized construct, resulting from individuals' lived experiences" was extracted. The underlying conditions determining economic actions include time-space environmental factors and comfort seeking. Causal conditions include personality systems, values, norms, and relational factors of interaction. Intervening conditions include prior attitudes toward actors, gender attitudes, and feelings and emotions. Strategic conditions include time perspective and economic justice, and consequential conditions include profit-seeking, materialistic thinking, and non-economic-spiritual thinking.

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