VEBLEN AND INSTITUTIONALISM CENTERED ON THE BEHAVIOR AND CULTURE OF INDIVIDUALS

Abstract

This study intends to examine institutionalized mental habits as a consequence
of the historical and cultural formation of the own society, under the optical
of the Evolutionary and Institutionalist perspective of Thorstein Veblen. In order to
achieve this objective we present the main notions of this approach departing from The
theory of leisure class. That is the reason why the mental habits, the moral and culture
choice and the behavior of the individuals became institutions which are unequal by
definition, since them are derived from historically constituted sociocultural patterns.