Helping Exchange Networks: An Exploration of Subjective Attributions for "Completing" a Social Exchange

How is it that people connect what might otherwise by unrelated events and how do these subjective connections affect one's decision-making process to help another? Using the ethnographic approach to study helping behavior, this paper seeks to expand understandings of helping behavior and soci...

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Main Author: Eric K. Shaw
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: North Carolina Sociological Association 2009-10-01
Series:Sociation Today
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Online Access:http://www.ncsociology.org/sociationtoday/v72/shaw.htm