Trust, distrust, and familiarity are distinct stances that can shift and combine

Evidence

Apart, therefore, from trust and distrust, one must take familiarity into account – a familiarity with the world which makes typical expectations possible at all, and which cannot be denied or rejected in toto. Even someone who suffers from fear or loathing of the world must take his medicine, pay his taxes, brush his teeth, take his car for testing and, in doing so, accept the world. The dependence on familiar world structures and types of meaning cannot be thrown off. … One has the possibility of moving in certain respects, from pre-existent familiarity to trust or distrust, from distrust to trust, from trust to an unproblematic familiarity. Shifts of this kind in the world around us make it possible to use various strategies for the reduction of complexity, one after another, or in different ways, alongside one another. — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 267

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces familiarity as a third analytic category alongside trust and distrust.