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1. 1. Nils Collin mellan två världar : Svensk-amerikanska vetenskapliga relationers utveckling 1770-1830

   Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för idé- och lärdomshistoria

   Författare :Emma Lainez; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Nils Collin; The Republic of Letters; Scientific personae; go-betweens; gift exchange; knowledge geography; Sweden; America;

   Sammanfattning : The purpose of this essay is to examine the scientific relations between Sweden and America, later USA, through the letter correspondence between Nils Collin and his fellow “scientists” in Sweden and America between 1770–1830. By examining the letters though three different theoretical lenses: Scientific persona, gift exchange and the geography of knowledge with the concepts of centers and peripheries, the inquiry shows us how the scientific relations between the two countries developed and changed during the investigated time period, thus adapting themselves to the political developments that created an international scientific arena instead of the earlier nation neutrality. LÄS MER

3. 2. Comparison of Japanese and Finnish Gift GivingBehavior

   Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och lärande

   Författare :Nora Ulkuniemi; [2022]
   Nyckelord :Cultural anthropology; Japan; Finland; gift giving; motives; functions; cultural values;

   Sammanfattning : Gift exchange is at the heart of many social relationships and interactions. Various studies haveimplied that gift-giving is often based on the obligation to reciprocate, thus creating an economicexchange. The common components of gift-giving are the gift, the giver and the receiver, and theoccasion. LÄS MER

4. 3. The Deadweight Loss of Christmas Revisited

   Master-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

   Författare :Tobias Lahtinen; Johan Rhodin; [2021-08-04]
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   Sammanfattning : The aim of this paper is to investigate if there is a deadweight loss, (DWL), or gain to society elicited from the gift-exchange during the Christmas holiday in Sweden in 2020. This is done by partly replicating the method used in the famous article The deadweight loss of Christmas, written by Joel Waldfogel (1993). LÄS MER

5. 4. A Sociological Perspective on Organ Transplantation and Donation in Serbia

   Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Sociologi; Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

   Författare :Teodora Vojnov; [2021]
   Nyckelord :Organ transplantation; organ donation; social capital; gift exchange theory; motivated information management; theory of planned behaviour; religion.; Social Sciences;

   Sammanfattning : Organ shortage has been a large issue all over the world, almost for as long as there have been organ transplants. Other than the straightforward issues like the organs not matching between the donor and the recipient, limited availability of suitable donors, logistic problems involved with the transplantation procedure etc. LÄS MER

7. 5. Giving, receiving and reciprocating : A qualitative reanalysis of articles studying disaster aid through gift exchange 

   Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Författare :Malin Hedenskog; [2020]
   Nyckelord :Mauss; gift exchange; disaster aid; reanalysis;

   Sammanfattning : The impact of international aid is debated in the scholarly literature. One of the theoretical frameworks used to study aid is developed in the Gift [1925] by Marcel Mauss. However, overall there is a lack of knowledge concerning the understanding of Mauss, and how it can be connected to the distribution of aid. LÄS MER