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Father, Son, Wife, Husband: Philanthropy as Exchange and Balance
This essay attempts to use exchange and balance theories to explain philanthropy. For exchange, such theoretical components as attractions or rewards, costs, barriers and alternatives are invoked to make sense of the biography of a Chinese philanthropist in Hong Kong who donated two schools to remem...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2924494/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20835377 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10834-010-9205-4 |
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description | This essay attempts to use exchange and balance theories to explain philanthropy. For exchange, such theoretical components as attractions or rewards, costs, barriers and alternatives are invoked to make sense of the biography of a Chinese philanthropist in Hong Kong who donated two schools to remember his father and wife. The balance theory was also used, which argues that people do not seek to maximize their pleasure or to minimize their pain, but to balance, advancing one purpose or concern without neglecting the other—to enhance their well-being and to act morally. The essay argues that the case study method is most able to handle complex behaviour and complex lives. It concludes with a plea for more active use of social theory in research on philanthropy as moral and economic behavior embedded in the social contexts of family, marriage and community. |
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spelling | pubmed-29244942010-09-10 Father, Son, Wife, Husband: Philanthropy as Exchange and Balance Chan, Kwok-bun J Fam Econ Issues Original Paper This essay attempts to use exchange and balance theories to explain philanthropy. For exchange, such theoretical components as attractions or rewards, costs, barriers and alternatives are invoked to make sense of the biography of a Chinese philanthropist in Hong Kong who donated two schools to remember his father and wife. The balance theory was also used, which argues that people do not seek to maximize their pleasure or to minimize their pain, but to balance, advancing one purpose or concern without neglecting the other—to enhance their well-being and to act morally. The essay argues that the case study method is most able to handle complex behaviour and complex lives. It concludes with a plea for more active use of social theory in research on philanthropy as moral and economic behavior embedded in the social contexts of family, marriage and community. Springer US 2010-06-11 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC2924494/ /pubmed/20835377 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10834-010-9205-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2010 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Original Paper Chan, Kwok-bun Father, Son, Wife, Husband: Philanthropy as Exchange and Balance |
title | Father, Son, Wife, Husband: Philanthropy as Exchange and Balance |
title_full | Father, Son, Wife, Husband: Philanthropy as Exchange and Balance |
title_fullStr | Father, Son, Wife, Husband: Philanthropy as Exchange and Balance |
title_full_unstemmed | Father, Son, Wife, Husband: Philanthropy as Exchange and Balance |
title_short | Father, Son, Wife, Husband: Philanthropy as Exchange and Balance |
title_sort | father, son, wife, husband: philanthropy as exchange and balance |
topic | Original Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2924494/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20835377 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10834-010-9205-4 |
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