System trust is faceless while personal trust and reembedding depend on facework.

Evidence

Trust in systems takes the form of faceless commitments, in which faith is sustained in the workings of knowledge of which the lay person is largely ignorant. … Trust in persons involves facework commitments, in which indicators of the integrity of others (within given arenas of action) are sought. … Reembedding refers to processes by means of which faceless commitments are sustained or transformed by facework. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 214

Categorization

• DEFINE: These are the exact Giddens definitions the reader’s project turns on: faceless vs facework commitments and reembedding.
• XREF: connects to: Stevens embodies Giddens’s faceless commitments, but Luhmann shows system trust enables ethical abdication; Modern communications stay reliable without shared moral views or personal acquaintance.; System trust operates independently of individuals’ personal readiness to trust (+8 more)

Related

• In Giddens, systems obtain a ‘face’ at their ‘access points,’ which sustains or transforms ‘faceless commitments’ through the interplay of disembedding and re-embedding. (similarity 0.92)
• Personal intermediaries are the default route to new trust (similarity 0.90)
• Giddens distinguishes ‘facework commitment’ from ‘faceless commitment’ to depict the difference between expert systems and their representatives, with trust located between the two. (similarity 0.90)
• Modern communications stay reliable without shared moral views or personal acquaintance. (similarity 0.87)
• A distinction is drawn between faceless and face-work commitments; involvement with abstract systems is routinized and often unconscious, with trust necessitated by ignorance. (similarity 0.86)
• Even committed system insiders need facework to sustain their own internal trust. (similarity 0.86)
• Giddens describes how trust in abstract systems develops as ‘faceless commitments,’ yet notes relations of trust are always ambivalent because confidence is needed amid fundamental ignorance of… (similarity 0.85)
• Personal trust becomes a variant of system trust when it reflects on self-presentation (similarity 0.85)
• System trust resists individual disappointments, unlike personal trust. (similarity 0.84)
• Personal trust becomes system trust under civilized conditions (similarity 0.84)
• Facework sustains basic trust through monitoring gaze, posture, and gesture. (similarity 0.84)
• System trust survives individual disappointments that would destroy personal trust (similarity 0.83)
• As societies grow more complex, trust shifts from shared worldviews to specialized competence. (similarity 0.82)
• System trust is so inevitable it escapes conscious reflection and debate. (similarity 0.82)
• System trust stays latent and beyond open discussion (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• System trust operates independently of individuals’ personal readiness to trust #expands (0.60)
• System trust cannot supply the mutuality that personal trust provides #expands (0.60) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 272
• Personal trust becomes a variant of system trust when it reflects on self-presentation #responds-to (0.45) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 239