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reciprocity

is a characteristic (along with redistribution) of non-capitalist societies based not on market exchange.

According to Polanyi, in modern capitalist economies the concepts of formalism and substantivism coincide since people organise their livelihoods based on the principle of rational choice. However, in non-Capitalist, pre-industrial economies this assumption does not hold. Unlike their Western capitalist counterparts, they are not based on market exchange but on redistribution and reciprocity. Reciprocity is defined as the mutual exchange of goods or services as part of long-term relationships. Redistribution implies the existence of a strong political centre such as kinship-based leadership, which receives and then redistributes subsistence goods according to culturally-specific principles. In societies that are not market-based reciprocity and redistribution usually occur together. (wikipedia)

is general reciprocity when there is uninhibited sharing or giving without expecting anything in return and where one gets only the satisfaction of giving.

is in the object itself. The object is not inactive but is invested with life. It seeks to return to its place of origin after it has been given away.

According to Mauss the principle of reciprocity lay in the object itself. The object according to him was not inactive but was invested with life and sought to return to its place of origin after it had been given away (Mauss 2002: 16).

is negative reciprocity when, as in the case of barter, a person expects to get paid back immediately.

is representative of a logical superiority that makes it more suitable for the understanding of higher, biological and social phenomena than is unidirectional causality.

The logical superiority of reciprocity makes it, on Hegel's view, more suitable for the understanding of higher, viz. biological and social, phenomena than is unidirectional causality. It is more likely that the different organs of an animal, or the customs and the political constitution of a PEOPLE, reciprocally affect each other, than that one is simply the effect of the other. But to explain x in terms of y, and y in terms of x, though correct as far as it goes, cannot provide a satisfactory explanation of either x or y. (inwood : 52)

is symmetrical reciprocity when someone expects a fair and tangible return at some point.

is the completion of the division of actuality which proves to be the notion. It is the grasping of the thing at the point where cause/effect, action/reaction/ possibility/necessity have completely merged with one another. It is sometimes called 'interaction'.

In Hegel's Logic, Reciprocity is the completion of the division of Actuality which proves to be the Notion. Reciprocity is the grasping of the thing at the point where cause and effect, action and reaction, possibility and necessity have completely merged with one another. Reciprocity is sometimes called 'interaction', the conception of a complex system as a network of interacting causes and effects, but yet lacking a 'notion' or concept of the underlying unifying system to 'make sense' of these interactions. (marxist.ort)

is the idea that people often respond to a positive action or gift by providing something in return.

Reciprocity is the idea that People often respond to a positive action or gift by providing something in return.

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