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Llewellyn, Nick. (2011) The gift in interaction: a study of ‘picking-up the bill’. British Journal of Sociology, Vol.62 (No.4). pp. 718-738. ISSN 0007-1315
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-4446.2011.01388.x
Abstract
This paper analyses the phenomenon of ‘picking up the bill’, thereby contributing to a resurgence of sociological interest in gift exchange. Drawing on ethnomethodology, it describes and locates a distinctive theoretical approach. Utilizing video recordings, the analysis considers the interactional constitution of gifts and how gift exchange is locally invoked via the norm of reciprocity. Recurrent practices are described, through which gifts are brought into being, with reciprocity invoked, by benefactor and beneficiary alike, to manage social problems of acceptance, rather than to sanction insufficient contributions. The study describes the social character of what are perhaps the preeminent gifts exchanged in modern societies; where one person pays for another's consumption.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
| Journal or Publication Title: | British Journal of Sociology |
| Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. |
| ISSN: | 0007-1315 |
| Date: | December 2011 |
| Volume: | Vol.62 |
| Number: | No.4 |
| Number of Pages: | 21 |
| Page Range: | pp. 718-738 |
| Identification Number: | 10.1111/j.1468-4446.2011.01388.x |
| Status: | Peer Reviewed |
| Publication Status: | Published |
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
| URI: | http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/43767 |
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