Some systems must invest trust externally, while programmed roles reduce internal trust needs.
Evidence
Once again these analyses illuminate in the clearest possible way what constitutes the background to all trust – the problem of complexity. By means of trust, the truster unburdens himself of complexity which he cannot sustain. Anyone who wishes to abuse his trust must take this complexity upon himself. He will have to burden himself with complex demands on behaviour, to ensure the most wide-ranging command of the relevant information and complete control of the information available to the truster, with the result that he himself will be in danger of collapsing under the pressure of complexity. Among the most important strategies for reducing fraud, therefore, is a time-limit on breach of trust, and also, if possible, on contact with the victim of the fraud. Adulterous relationships, in which this is not possible, require high expectations of behaviour, as is well known, and are seldom the result of balanced consideration. In all long-term relationships justifying trust is easier, even if this does not protect the truster from the exceptional circumstances of a well-secured individual, judiciously planted. — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 245 (
#expands, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Even committed system insiders need facework to sustain their own internal trust. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 209; Trust presupposes a structured environment supplied by the existence of other systems.; Trust substitutes knowledge of system structure for unavailable information about others. (+4 more)
Related
- External trust depends on learning and system cover, not internal structural reasons. (similarity 0.87)
- Trust formation is shaped by both internal system structures and external environmental conditions (similarity 0.86)
- External trust becomes necessary for systems that must partner with outsiders. (similarity 0.86)
- Organizations require the truster to retain a modicum of distrust (similarity 0.86)
- Trust expands a system’s complexity potential and buys it time (similarity 0.86)
- Trust reduces social complexity by replacing missing information with guaranteed security (similarity 0.86)
- Trust reduces complexity through internal structures, not only external conditions (similarity 0.85)
- Trust reduces complexity by substituting inner certainty for external certainty (similarity 0.85)
- Social complexity forces the shift from personal to impersonal, system-governed trust. (similarity 0.85)
- Trust reduces the truster’s complexity while transferring that burden onto the trusted (similarity 0.84)
- Trust functions by pruning the over-complex future to fit the present (similarity 0.84)
- Trust rests on structural system guarantees that relieve individuals of risk assessment (similarity 0.84)
- Trust and law evolved from a common root into differentiated mechanisms (similarity 0.84)
- Differentiated societies need more trust to reduce their greater complexity (similarity 0.83)
- System trust operates independently of individuals’ personal readiness to trust (similarity 0.83)
Broader Connections
- Trust presupposes a structured environment supplied by the existence of other systems.
#expands(0.60) - Trust substitutes knowledge of system structure for unavailable information about others.
#expands(0.60) - Trust reduces the truster’s complexity while transferring that burden onto the trusted
#expands(0.60) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 245 - Trust formation is shaped by both internal system structures and external environmental conditions
#expands(0.60) - Even committed system insiders need facework to sustain their own internal trust.
#qualifies(0.50) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 209 - Trust and distrust can increase together within differentiated systems.
#complicates(0.50) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 313 - System trust cannot supply the mutuality that personal trust provides
#qualifies(0.50) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 272