Dom – sistema de relações entre pessoas

Adopting a conception of maussiana inspired gift, that is, understanding the gift of experience as a symbolic exchange relationship that has its reason for being in openness to the other, this text reflects on how this type of relationship translates the creation of social ties and influences the way one thinks sociability . Essentially, it is understood that the complexity of the gift relationship does not let succumb to logical explanations that reduce the social reality to a universe apprehended by rules. The gift cannot be explained by a self-referential logic of reciprocity that transcends the concrete gestures between the authors of the relationship.