The existence of local market and modern: a phenomenological study in kendari city

The study aimed to assess the socio-economic space of shopping along with its various problems. This research applied a qualitative approach. It was developed deepenly to analyze the process of socio-economic interaction and communicational action as non economic factor that influenced the flow of the people’s economic growth. In the effort of analyzing the communicational process of selling and buying, it was employed the methods of communicational ethnography, ethnomethodologics, and heuristical symbolic interactionism. Thus, the factors that played the roles in the interaction could be found. The results of the research showed that behind the crowd of traditional shopping arena, it was found a pseudo-reality and a chunk of lies that in turn led to consumptive behavior. The upper middle class (the haves) were increasingly love spending their money. Inevitably, for the middle and lower classes (the have-nots) also attempted to taste a variety of the consumptive goods.