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- Title
The Gift and Open Science.
- Authors
Egbert, Henrik
- Abstract
This article illustrates how social structures and behaviours of scientists in the societal sub-system of open science resemble patterns analysed in The Gift, an essay written by Marcel Mauss nearly 100 years ago. The presented analysis goes beyond existing interpretations of gift-giving in science. The latter has mainly focussed on the exchange of knowledge and citations. I argue that The Gift explains also identity, competition, co-opetition, rituals and punishment. Mauss's Gift is seen as a complementary model to existing economic and sociological approaches regularly used to analyse structures and behaviours in open science. By accentuating such an anthropological approach, I conclude that the Gift provides explanations for the stability and the expansion of the open science community.
- Subjects
ANTHROPOLOGY; GIFTS; MAUSS, Marcel, 1872-1950; RECIPROCITY (Commerce); SCIENCE
- Publication
Durkheimian Studies, 2021, Vol 25, p187
- ISSN
1362-024X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3167/ds.2021.250108