Social relations enable malfeasance on a larger scale than their absence does.
Evidence
One is to recognize that as a solution to the problem of order, the embeddedness position is less sweeping than either alternative argument, since networks of social relations penetrate irregularly and in differing degrees in different sectors of economic life … The second is to insist that while social relations may indeed often be a necessary condition for trust and trustworthy behavior, they are not sufficient to guarantee these and may even provide occasion and means for malfeasance and conflict on a scale larger than in their absence. — Shapiro, Susan P., The Social Control of Impersonal Trust, 11
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to Granovetter’s embeddedness thesis and to Octavia Butler’s Parable depictions of community trust/duty — and to reading purpose about how the dyad is insufficient for trust. — connects to: More cooperation is not always desirable across all groups.; Strong social ties also enable exclusion and violence toward outsiders — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 528; Rationalized social relationships increase the efficiency of producing inhumanity — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 436
- ADDENDUM: The insufficiency of social relations alone as a trust guarantee parallels the ‘Complaints About Immodesty’ theme of norms failing without external enforcement, and graft/root networks as physical ‘embeddedness’ with the same paradox.
Related
- Trust can arise even when transactions are not embedded in social relations. (similarity 0.86)
- Social relations are sufficient but not necessary conditions for trust in economic life. (similarity 0.85)
- Trust in economic life arises from social relations rather than morality or institutions alone. (similarity 0.83)
- Strong social ties also enable exclusion and violence toward outsiders (similarity 0.81)
- Trust flourishes most where neither kinship nor contract obligations apply (similarity 0.79)
- Dense social relations sustain many non-fungible outstanding obligations. (similarity 0.79)
- Trust alone cannot explain modern social order. (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- More cooperation is not always desirable across all groups.
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