I compare giving decisions elicited using the sequential and strategy methods. With both methods, subjects choose gift amounts for four wealth conditions. In the wealth condition with the lowest giving, the difference in giving between methods is not significant. In the other three conditions, giving is higher with the strategy method than with the sequential method. Regarding the effects of th...

This paper problematizes gift relations in criminal organizations. It adopts a symbolic interaction perspective to focus scholarly attention on the way which actants skillfully maneuver within social expectations inherent gift‐giving relations. The study is based insights from twenty interviews with ex‐convicts and ten police officers or associates, an in‐depth analysis of memoirs, reports, new...

Recent years have seen a rise in the number of sociological, anthropological, and ethnological works on the gift metaphor in organ donation contexts, as well as in the number of philosophical and theological analyses of giving and generosity, which has been mirrored in the ethical debate on organ donation. In order to capture the breadth of this field, four frameworks for thinking about bodily ...

Inspired by a traditional ritual, the potlatch, Indigenous Dene communities in central-northern Alaska have developed new forms of reciprocity as response to exogenous political threats their autonomy. The potlatch involved ritualized gifting food and other items selected guests means creating equilibrium inculcating sense obligatory reciprocity. Today, people are reluctant leave begun shipping...

Although scholars have long been interested in distinguishing gift giving from bribery, the impact of degree guanxi between a giver and recipient on this distinction remains unclear. Drawi...

BACKGROUND In the UK, altruism has featured explicitly as an underpinning principle for biobanking. However, conceptualizing donation as altruistic downplays the role of reciprocity and personal or family benefit. OBJECTIVE To investigate how biosample donors talk about their donation and whether they regard samples as 'gifts'. METHODS In this qualitative study, 21 people, both healthy volu...