...unforeseeably changed without this phenomenon. Gratitude, in the first place, supplements the legal order. All contacts among men rest on the schema of giving...equilibrium and cohesion do not exist without it. But there also are innumerable other relations, to which the legal form does not apply, and in which the enforcement...

...But perhaps the most thoroughgoing classical expression of exchange social structuralism is Simmel's: All contacts among men rest on the schema of giving and returning the equivalence. . . . [S]ociety . . . always signifies that individuals are connected by mutual influence and determination....

...primordial imperative which "pervades every relation of primitive life" (p. 12). Simmel wrote that "all contacts among men rest on the schema of giving and returning the equivalence" (1950, p. 387). Marx, Durkheim, Malinowski, LeVi-Strauss, Homans, and probably every other master of...

...equilibrium and cohesion could not exist without 'the reciprocity of service and return service,' and that 'all contacts among men rest on the schema of giving and returning the equivalence.'"5 We would like, in conformity with Simmel's original text, to consider two places in...

...work of many scholars, from the classic to the contemporary. Georg Simmel (195o, 387) observed that "all contacts among men rest on the schema of giving and returning the equivalence," and LT Hobhouse (1951, 12) declared that "reciprocity is the vital principle of society."4 Though many...

...receiving of which one's normal salary would be a part. As the sociologist Georg Simmel once wrote: All contacts among men rest on the schema of giving and returning. . . . The equivalence of innumerable gifts and performances can be enforced. In all economic exchanges in legal form, in...