Overview
Brings to an English-language audience the 2015 honorable mention of the Finnish Scientific Societies and Publishers
Presents a fresh, original engagement with a classic and enduring theme of the modern social sciences: reciprocity, the mutual obligations and rewards that bind together social units from family to the state
Offers a forcefully argued, well-documented contribution to contemporary debates on wealth and inequality
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Presenting new insights into reciprocity, this book combines Marcel Mauss’s well-known gift theory with Barrington Moore’s idea of mutual obligations linking rulers and the ruled. Teasing out the interrelatedness of these approaches, Reciprocity in Human Societies suggests that evolutionary psychology reveals a human tendency for reciprocity and collaboration, not only in a mutually cooperative way but also through increasing retributive moral emotions. The book discusses various historical societies and the different models of the current welfare state—Nordic (social democratic), conservative, and liberal— and the repercussions of the neoliberal policies of tax havens, tax cuts, and austerity with a cross-disciplinary approach that bridges evolutionary psychology, sociology, and social anthropology with history.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Mirkka Danielsbacka is Senior Researcher in the Department of Social Research at the University of Turku, Finland. She holds a PhD in Finnish and Nordic history and social and public policy at the University of Helsinki. Her research focuses on Second World War, welfare state and family relations.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Reciprocity in Human Societies
Book Subtitle: From Ancient Times to the Modern Welfare State
Authors: Antti Kujala, Mirkka Danielsbacka
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96056-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-96055-5Published: 17 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07141-7Published: 28 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-96056-2Published: 03 August 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 225
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Social Anthropology, Social Theory, Politics of the Welfare State, Biological Psychology, Sociological Theory, Social Structure, Social Inequality