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

Introduction In many ways, social life is bounded by property and rules of ownership. People generally know what-they own and what they do not own, they know how to limit their behavior accordingly, and they expect others to know and do the same. Disagreements over ownership do arise, and societies have adjudicating systems to settle such disputes. Typically, within nation states, the rules of ownership are spelled out in codes of law and in jurisprudence. In some societies, the principles of ownership have been further analyzed and elaborated upon by political philosophers and political economists. (See NaePherson, 1978a, for a sampling of European and American essays.) Although the rules of ownership may be explicitly spelled out in law, legal tradition, and scholarly tracts, they must also be implicit in the thinking and in the judgements of the individuals of the society. Certainly the vast majority of property relat {onships in any society never need appeal to formal adjudication. Ownership, if it is anything, is orderly, rule-governed social behavior. Further, it may happen that the more formal and explicit conceptions of ownership conflict with the culturally and behaviorally real _ ceptions of ownership found in the general population. Hahm (1963) documented a situation in Korea in which squatters, land owners, and entorcing police officers alike

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