Semantics of ownership

Rudmin, Floyd W.

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Document type:: Book

Collection:: POP - Possession, Ownership, Property

Title:: Semantics of ownership: a study based on free recall and on explicit judgements

Author:: Rudmin, Floyd W.

Year of publication:: 1983

Language:: English

Subject:: Besitz Eigentum

Topic:: C - Psychology

Shelfmark:: C/R916

Access:: Free access

felt that the Western derived property laws were unjust in the context of Korean culture. Other instances of conflict between formal and folk conceptions of ownership can be found in the popular press, e.g. the foreclosure of family farms in Canada over the past few years. A social-psychological study of ownership might be useful in understanding such differences and perhaps in contributing to resolutions. The goal of the present study was to explore the meaning of ownership held by an adult population. This involved examining what might be semantically entailed by ownership. "To own" has been defined as meaning "to possess; to have or hold as property" (Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, 1961, p. 601), but "owning" may be perceived as entailing other relationships between people and property, some possibly to a greater degree than "possessing" , "having", and "holding" 3 alse. efforts were made to explore both Coral meanings of ownership and more typical, day-to-day meanings, as well as the manners in which the two modes of meaning might differ. This was done in the first instance by asking subjects to judge the merit of various criteria of ownership as general arguments that something is owned by SOMEONE The more typical meanings of ownership were examined by instructing subjects to do recall tasks concerning what they own and to then judge the applicability of the criteria to the recall

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