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ASEAD Uluslararası Sosyal Bilimler Sempozyumu , Antalya, Turkey, 10 - 12 April 2021
Gift
giving has had a long tradition in the culture history of many civilizations
and have been practiced with different motivations and effects for both the
giver and receiver. That is why this issue surpasses any disciplinary
borderlines of sociology and anthropology due to its heterogeneous
representation in social sciences irrespective of the approach.The purpose of
this paper is to investigate the social and cultural meanings of strategic gift
giving and the habitude underpinning it through philosophical thinking in order
to analyze what types of binding relations and alliances can be formed in class
differentiated societies. The
epistemological basis of such an analysis brings together various theories,
from the structuralist objectivism of Claude Levi-Strauss to the existential subjectivism of Jean-Paul Sartre and in consideration
of the sociological conceptual apparatus of Pierre Bordieu, Émile Durkheim and
Marcel Mauss. Further, the gift exhange practice will be addressed from the
psychological perspective of affective implications such as honor, gratitude or
admiration and how these affects help to produce symbolic capital in the
receiver of gift or counter gift.
Keywords:
habitus, gift, symbolic capital, sociology