Modern societies still sustain intensive trust in family and friends

Evidence

In our more complex, open, mobile, and relatively impersonal society, Breton and Wintrobe (1982, 80) note that large investments in trust in a small number of intensive relationships are unusual. What we see instead are many contacts that are less intense. Breton and Wintrobe are concerned with something roughly like commercial relationships, because we might still see substantial investments in trust and trustworthiness in close, intensive relationships with family and friends even in such a society as the United States. Indeed, Breton and Wintrobe themselves have had an admirably long and close collaborative academic relationship. — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 867

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: People still sustain cultural commons daily despite hyper-consumer society — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 133