Fragmented National Economies
Rather than to consider as unavoidable the fragmentation of the national economies observed in different studies, this article looks at people resorting to food banks. It allows us to update the appropriation of socioeconomics transformations in developed countries at these people’s social environment scale as well as at their individual scale. A description model of goods circulation as a form of reciprocity (according to the three obligations as defined by Mauss) and as a form of reciprocal social action (according to Halbwachs’ conception of social relationships and social memory) brings to light the various organization schemes of these forms of reciprocity, as experienced by the subjects.