Trust flourishes most where neither kinship nor contract obligations apply

Evidence

There are at least three reasons to believe that a socially extensive and enduring trust is not an easy thing to create. The first of these is clear in Bernard Williams’s contribution to this volume. Williams distinguishes a class of what he calls ‘micro’ motives which are ‘non-egoistic’. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1499 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Socially extensive and enduring trust is inherently difficult to create — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1499; Dense social relations sustain many non-fungible outstanding obligations. — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 84; Trust can arise even when transactions are not embedded in social relations. — Shapiro, Susan P., The Social Control of Impersonal Trust, 12 (+1 more)

Related

• Socially extensive and enduring trust is inherently difficult to create (similarity 0.91)
• Trust can arise even when transactions are not embedded in social relations. (similarity 0.85)
• Social relations are sufficient but not necessary conditions for trust in economic life. (similarity 0.85)
• Trust requires that reality’s conditions and the strains of commitment stay manageable (similarity 0.84)
• Trust can be deliberately simulated and codified far beyond its natural sources (similarity 0.84)
• Defining trust requires grounding it in mutual dependency relations (similarity 0.84)
• Trust in economic life arises from social relations rather than morality or institutions alone. (similarity 0.84)
• Widespread trust consists of pockets of dyadic relationships, not generalized sentiment (similarity 0.83)
• Trust’s interconnected structure makes it fragile across whole systems (similarity 0.83)
• Trust should not be economized even without supportive feelings and networks (similarity 0.83)
• Thick trust cannot extend beyond small groups except via mystified elite authority (similarity 0.83)
• Trust flourishes only in the gaps left by kinship and contract structures (similarity 0.83)
• Trust operates most prominently in friendship, unmediated by kinship or contract. (similarity 0.83)
• Loose social conventions undermine our capacity to make credible long-term commitments (similarity 0.83)
• Trust governs dealings only where kinship and contract cannot constrain others (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Socially extensive and enduring trust is inherently difficult to create #qualifies (0.75) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1499