Informal extra codes depend on unshareable trust and milieu knowledge
Evidence
Extra codes always have three characteristics which connect with one another, namely: (1) greater concreteness and dependence on context; (2) a lesser capacity for social legitimation, and so also less ‘presentability’; and, therefore, (3) for their functioning within the system, dependence, in special circumstances, on sensitivity, knowledge of the milieu, knowledge of history, trust and (!) mistrust, which are not shared in their environment. — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 660
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
- XREF: Connects to Giddens’s ‘facework’: the informal trust Luhmann describes as an extra code is precisely the facework that faceless commitments suppress — Stevens has no milieu knowledge of the realities Darlington’s world hides.
Related
- Informal extra codes depend on context, milieux, trust, and history for functioning. (similarity 0.92)
- Formal codes spawn informal parallel codes that serve the same function oppositely. (similarity 0.78)
- Every communication medium develops informal extra codes running counter to its main code (similarity 0.78)