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12 May 2017

International panhandling and vocabularies of motive - Sociological Images

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    Title: International panhandling and vocabularies of motive - Sociological Images
    Link: https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2017/04/28/guest-post-international-panhandling-and-vocabularies-of-motive

    In all three settings, the vocabularies of motive among panhandlers have a common theme of need: for shelter, drink or food. What’s interesting is how each cultural setting changes the calculus about what kind of motive is most likely to bring in the cash. Perhaps it comes down to what each society views as among the basic human rights: in the US, shelter has a plausible claim to that status, but beer does not; whereas in Germany, it an appeal for trinkgeld succeeds as an appeal to common humanity and decency; in Turkey, hunger seems to trump all other claims.