Three Conditions of Human Relations: Marcel Mauss and Georg Simmel  

Oleh:

Papilloud, Christian

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Philosophy & Social Criticism vol. 30 no. 4 (Jun. 2004), page 431–444.
Topik: anthropology ; duration ; exchange theory ; human relations ; Marcel Mauss ; philosophy ; reciprocity ; sacrifice ; Georg Simmel ; sociology
Fulltext: 431PSC304.pdf (108.95KB)

Isi artikel

In his study The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies, Marcel Mauss describes an archaic mode of human relations, the gift, whose analysis allows us to specify the reasons for our daily exchanges. Georg Simmel considers the same demands from the starting-point of Wechselwirkung (effects of reciprocity), which contains the properties of all human relations. Their research is based on the following question: Is society possible? The authors examine this question based on notions of sacrifice, reciprocity, and duration, which allow them to isolate three conditions necessary for the existence of human relations: the personalization of, the commitment to, and the duration of this bond. Although it does not qualify as a response to the question asked above, the human relation appears as the inevitable question of sociological reasoning, able to stimulate and open new research perspectives.

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