Social-control remedies reproduce the structural vulnerabilities they target.

Evidence

I have argued that impersonal trust permits complex developments in social organization and exchange that create distinctive opportunities for abuse. These are responded to by new social-control strategies that unfortunately share some of the same structural properties as the original developments. Therefore, similar opportunities for violation emerge and stimulate new social-control measures that contain the structural seeds of further deviance. And so on. — Shapiro, Susan P., The Social Control of Impersonal Trust, 145

Categorization

  • XREF: Echoes the reader’s Raskolnikov/Simmel work: externalized control (Porfiry’s audit, the institution-guardian) itself reinscribes the dyadic problem it was meant to resolve. — connects to: Mechanisms for controlling impersonal trust themselves create new opportunities for abuse — Shapiro, Susan P., The Social Control of Impersonal Trust, 1; Depolarization interventions can succeed while creating unintended harms.

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