Closed communities enforce trust through overlapping religious, family, and residence ties.
Evidence
Inspection shows certain attributes of the social structure. A given merchant community is ordinarily very close, both in the frequency of interaction and in ethnic and family ties. The wholesale diamond market in New York City, for example, is Jewish, with a high degree of intermarriage, living in the same community in Brooklyn, and going to the same synagogues. It is essentially a closed community. — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 46
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Trust is sustained by sanctions of relational withdrawal or community shunning; Trust limits help explain cliques, familism, and ethnic exclusion.; Close communities substitute communal sanctioning norms for dyadic trust relationships (+5 more)
Related
- In low-trust societies commerce stays confined within family and friend circles. (similarity 0.84)
- Hostile larger societies drive stronger localized trust enclaves (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Close communities substitute communal sanctioning norms for dyadic trust relationships
#corroborates(0.90) - Trust is sustained by sanctions of relational withdrawal or community shunning
#expands(0.85) - Trust limits help explain cliques, familism, and ethnic exclusion.
#expands(0.80) - Rural folk religion reinforces group boundaries through local sacred markers
#exemplifies(0.80) - Religion functioned as a shared communicative idiom bridging tribal trust and urban fear.
#exemplifies(0.75) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2078 - Social norms make people present stable identities that others can trust
#expands(0.72)