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

particular individuals and sets of individuals for particular objects is a major political and economic concern. Much of the discussion of ownership in philosophy and political economy centers on justification of current property arrangements. However, such issues are beyond the scope of the present study. Also, the matters of joint ownership (Hobart, 1975) and of collective ownership (Furby, 1980), while they can be encompassed by the general framework presented earlier, will not be pursued here. Psychological Studies Ownership has many qualities that should make it a topical focus in social psychology. It clearly entails rule-governed social behavior, the selective recognition of ownable objects and events, and some cognitive processes for differentiating owners and non-owners. Further, there should be developmental acquisition processes for all of these. Nevertheless, while ownership has long been a topic of interest in the fields of law, political economy, and SNE it has had irregular development as a topic within the field of psychology. Perhaps the first major effort to establish ownership as a topic of research in social psychology was Beaglehole's 1932 book, Property, in which he reviewed biological reports of animal territoriality, as well as anthropological ethnographies and osychological studies of collecting behaviors. Since then,

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