Методологічні засади соціологічного дослідження економіко-ментальних підвалин легітимності приватної власності

The article focuses on the indepth and nonreflexive character of economic mentality, and as a result on the complexity of sociological research of its characteristics. The author emphasizes the genetic connections of economic mentality and economic culture, as well as its possible influence on the dom inant sociopolitical ideology in the given society and its implementation in the economics institutions. The survey defines the possibility to analyze em pirical manifestations of ideological beliefs and economic cultural orienta tion of a person as indirect empirical manifestations of economic mentality.