Social Solidarity And The Gift

Author : Aafke E. Komter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521600842
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Solidarity and the Gift written by Aafke E. Komter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together two traditions of thinking about social ties: sociological theory on sol idarity and anthropological theory on gift exchange. The purpose of the book is to explore how both theoretical traditions may complete and enrich each other, and how they may illuminate transformations in solidarity. The main argument, supported by empirical illustrations, is that a theory of solidarity should incorporate some of the core insights from anthropological gift theory. The book presents a theoretical model covering both positive and negative--selective and excluding--aspects and consequences of solidarity.

Author : Marcel Mauss
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136896848
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gift written by Marcel Mauss and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Helmuth Berking
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 0857026135
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sociology of Giving written by Helmuth Berking and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1999-03-30 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book decodes the ambivalence of gift-giving. It examines its socio-ethical and integrative potential. Following a short recollection of contemporary gift-giving, its motives, occasions and its rules, the reader is invited to travel back in time and space examining ′sacrifice′, ′food-sharing′, and ′gift giving′ as those basic institutions upon which symbolic orders of ′traditional′ society rely. The historical invention of hospitality is considered and paves the way to an analysis of the anthropology of giving. Berking goes on to explore the transition from traditional society to the market, self interest form. He questions the view that our societies are dominated by individualism and explores the contemporary interplay between self interest and the common good.

Author : David Cheal
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317401328
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gift Economy written by David Cheal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until recently we have known more about gift giving practices in pre-industrial societies than about those of industrial western society. In this book, first published in 1988, David Cheal shows that the process of present giving and receiving is a vital element in contemporary social life, relevant to some of the most important theoretical traditions in sociology, particularly those of Durkheim and Weber, and to the social constructionism of Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann. This volume is the result of a major study of gift rituals carried out by David Cheal and his associates in which general themes are richly illustrated with details from individual case histories gathered during the research. It is highly significant that in western society women are more active gift givers than men and, while their voices explain how emotions and interests are interrelated within the gift economy, the author shows how that in turn is related to current theories about family, gender and religion.

Author : Grégoire Mallard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108489699
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gift Exchange written by Grégoire Mallard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines gift exchanges as a foundational notion both in anthropology and in debates about international economic governance. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Author : Graham Crow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Solidarities written by Graham Crow and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how people strive to come together & act as a unified force. It considers arguments of those who claim solidarity is increasingly fragile & of those concerned with revitalising solidarities in our unsettled societies.

Author : Jeffrey Ellsworth
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474228399
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constitutional Sovereignty and Social Solidarity in Europe written by Jeffrey Ellsworth and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this book respond in different ways to questions regarding sovereignty, constitutionality and social solidarity in the European Union. A common theme in the book is a perception that the people and peoples of the European Union have drifted into a quagmire of political paralysis within which essential features of the paralysis – lack of constitutionality, lack of sovereignty and lack of social solidarity – feed off one another. Some of the essays put forward a more positive view. They associate the demise of sovereignty in Member States of the European Union with an emergence of new forms of democracy or new formations of political legitimacy in the complex structures of multi-level governance in the European Union. Between them, the essays provide the reader with a comprehensive study of the key issues of European politics and law today.

Author : Helmuth Berking
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780761956495
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sociology of Giving written by Helmuth Berking and published by SAGE Publications Limited. This book was released on 1999-09-20 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all give and receive gifts. But few of us reflect on the risks and uncertainties inherent to this form. For example, to give means to acquire power, to effect a symbolic exchange, to initiate ties and alliances, to convey social messages to others and to classify our own status. Gift-giving is also a device to register honour and shame, to show solidarity, to equalize and to create intimacy. This fascinating volume looks at the ambivalence of gift-giving; contemporary gift-giving, its motives, occasions and its rules; examines `sacrifice', `food-sharing' and `gift-giving' as those basic institutions upon which symbolic orders of `traditional' society rely; and considers the historical invention of hospitality, paving the

Author : Ruud H. J. Meulen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107069807
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Solidarity and Justice in Health and Social Care written by Ruud H. J. Meulen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a new view on the concept of solidarity and explains how it complements justice in health and social care.

Author : Elisabeth S. Clemens
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022667083X
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Civic Gifts written by Elisabeth S. Clemens and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Civic Gifts, Elisabeth S. Clemens takes a singular approach to probing the puzzle that is the United States. How, she asks, did a powerful state develop within an anti-statist political culture? How did a sense of shared nationhood develop despite the linguistic, religious, and ethnic differences among settlers and, eventually, citizens? Clemens reveals that an important piece of the answer to these questions can be found in the unexpected political uses of benevolence and philanthropy, practices of gift-giving and reciprocity that coexisted uneasily with the self-sufficient independence expected of liberal citizens Civic Gifts focuses on the power of gifts not only to mobilize communities throughout US history, but also to create new forms of solidarity among strangers. Clemens makes clear how, from the early Republic through the Second World War, reciprocity was an important tool for eliciting both the commitments and the capacities needed to face natural disasters, economic crises, and unprecedented national challenges. Encompassing a range of endeavors from the mobilized voluntarism of the Civil War, through Community Chests and the Red Cross to the FDR-driven rise of the March of Dimes, Clemens shows how voluntary efforts were repeatedly articulated with government projects. The legacy of these efforts is a state co-constituted with, as much as constrained by, civil society.