Aristocratic trustworthiness is enforced by community-wide exclusionary norms, not reciprocity.
Evidence
What was the nature of Vronsky’s concern to repay his gambling debt? It was not merely a reciprocal concern with his gambling partner of the moment. It was, rather, a concern to live up to the standards of behavior of the nineteenth-century Russian aristocratic community of which he was a member. If he failed to repay the debt, he would be embarrassed in that community and would lose standing in it, so that his opportunities within that community would be constrained. He faced a norm of exclusion, a norm that required his submission to the group in various ways at the cost, if he did not submit, of being shunned within the group and perhaps even excluded from the group. — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 267
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
Related
- Trustworthiness can be community-directed rather than partner-directed (similarity 0.88)
- Broad social trust arises only in aristocracies, which then undermine it. (similarity 0.80)
- Community-norm trust does not encapsulate another’s interests (similarity 0.78)
- Socially extensive trust requires an aristocracy to create it, which then undermines it (similarity 0.78)
- Setting conditions for extended trust logically drives toward aristocratic social ordering. (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Institutions substitute for trust by securing trustworthiness coercively.
#expands(0.80) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 787 - Private honor is a self-love risking one’s possessions, not community regard
#contradicts(0.80) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1784 - Any durable trusting society must be an aristocracy of coded conduct
#expands(0.78) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1528