Trust and social fabric are mutually constitutive and two-way

Evidence

In the analysis of trust, we are inevitably drawn to the complex two-way interrelationships between it, the economic and political fabric of society, and the individuals who constitute that society. On the one hand we may be concerned with its role in the creation of that fabric and its psychological impact on the individual, and on the other we may be concerned with how that fabric and the properties of those individuals can serve to maintain trust and any associated cooperative behaviours. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 502

Categorization

• XREF: The two-way trust/fabric loop maps onto the reader’s Hardin argument: fabric constrains observable behavior, which sustains the trust that built the fabric. — connects to: Social trust and civic engagement co-vary across societies as one underlying factor. — Robert Putnam, Bowling Alone: America’s Declining…, 59; Social trust is an outcome and byproduct of social capital — Adelin-Costin Dumitru, Forging the Resistive Republic: Social…, 41