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A gift economy or gift culture is a system of exchange where valuables are not sold, but rather given without an explicit agreement for immediate or future rewards. [1] Social norms and customs govern giving a gift in a gift culture; although there is some expectation of reciprocity, gifts are not given in an explicit exchange of goods or ...
For example, givers avoid giving the same gifts more than once while recipients are more open to receiving a repeated gift, [3] givers prefer to avoid giving self-improvement products (e.g., self-help books) as gifts while recipients are more open to receiving such gifts, [4] when choosing between giving digital and physical gift cards, givers ...
Indian giver" is a pejorative expression used to describe a person who gives a "gift" and later wants it back or who expects something of equivalent worth in return for the item. [1] It is based on cultural misunderstandings that took place between the early European colonists and the Indigenous people with whom they traded. [ 2 ]
I think what I love most about it is that her gifts follow a few golden rules for giving a gift to someone you don't know very well: They're inexpensive, they don't require knowing someone's size ...
Apple’s AirTag (and for the non-Apple crowd, Tile) represent an easy way to keep tabs on everything from wallets and keys to pets and bicycles and, quite honestly, everything else in between. It ...
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Unlike unconditional love which represents a limitless and altruistic form of love, conditional love is based upon conditions or expectations of the lover being met and satisfied. [3] Conditional love, in some ways, is a way for the lover to diminish the autonomy and relatedness necessary in creating or developing intrinsic motivation. [4]
She demonstrates the way that political interests to keep the wages of the poor low create a climate in which it is politically convenient to buy into the idea of culture of poverty . In sociology and anthropology , the concept created a backlash, pushing scholars to look to structures rather than " blaming-the-victim " ( Bourgois 2001 ).