In Giddens, systems obtain a ‘face’ at their ‘access points,’ which sustains or transforms ‘faceless commitments’ through the interplay of disembedding and re-embedding.
Evidence
Understanding Trust from the Perspective of Sociological (DP 05-13) (econstor / DIW)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Stevens embodies Giddens’s faceless commitments, but Luhmann shows system trust enables ethical abdication; Giddens describes how trust in abstract systems develops as ‘faceless commitments,’ yet notes relations of trust are always ambivalent because confidence is needed amid fundamental ignorance of the social world. — Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity (excerpt); Giddens distinguishes ‘facework commitment’ from ‘faceless commitment’ to depict the difference between expert systems and their representatives, with trust located between the two. — The relationship between institutional and interpersonal trust (+2 more)
Related
- Giddens distinguishes ‘facework commitment’ from ‘faceless commitment’ to depict the difference between expert systems and their representatives, with trust located between the two. (similarity 0.94)
- System trust is faceless while personal trust and reembedding depend on facework. (similarity 0.92)
- Giddens describes how trust in abstract systems develops as ‘faceless commitments,’ yet notes relations of trust are always ambivalent because confidence is needed amid fundamental ignorance of… (similarity 0.89)
- A distinction is drawn between faceless and face-work commitments; involvement with abstract systems is routinized and often unconscious, with trust necessitated by ignorance. (similarity 0.89)
- Even committed system insiders need facework to sustain their own internal trust. (similarity 0.85)
- Personal intermediaries are the default route to new trust (similarity 0.84)
- Giddens defines trust as confidence in the reliability of a person or system expressing faith in the probity or love of another or in the correctness of abstract principles, and notes all trust is… (similarity 0.83)
- As societies grow more complex, trust shifts from shared worldviews to specialized competence. (similarity 0.83)
- Facework sustains basic trust through monitoring gaze, posture, and gesture. (similarity 0.83)
- Modern systems demand trust for entities one cannot feel toward (similarity 0.83)
- System trust resists individual disappointments, unlike personal trust. (similarity 0.82)
- System trust stays latent and beyond open discussion (similarity 0.82)
- Trust only becomes a problem when familiarity no longer suffices (similarity 0.81)
- Personal trust becomes system trust under civilized conditions (similarity 0.81)
- System trust produces a compulsion to trust a system one cannot correct (similarity 0.81)
Broader Connections
- System trust is faceless while personal trust and reembedding depend on facework.
#expands(0.85) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 214