GIVE AND TAKE AMONG THE RURAL POOR

Emerald - Tập 17 Số 3/4 - Trang 102-129 - 1997
DouglasHarper1
1Department of Sociology, Duquesne University and Gilbert Gillespie, Department of Sociology, Cornell University

Tóm tắt

In the past, social exchange based on reciprocity has been important to the ways in which people in rural areas have made their living. Our study shows that contemporary reciprocal labor exchanges continue to be integral to the ways in which households sustain themselves economically and socially. However, unlike the relations of reciprocity of the past, which were based upon accomplishing harvest work among neighboring dairy farms, the current patterns of exchange are situational and contingent, and often embedded in kin and other social networks, rather than immediate neighbors. Understanding reciprocity reveals a fundamental element in the livelihood strategies of low‐income, land‐based, rural people.

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Emerald

Tập 17 Số 3/4

102-129

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