Trust guardians purposefully fuse competing theories of social action
Evidence
Guardians make no assumptions about whether actors are oversocialized, undersocialized, or, instead, striving for social connection in their economic relations. They skeptically embrace all three accounts, offering a mix of normative prescriptions, socialization opportunities, institutional arrangements, structural constraints, and networking strategies. — Shapiro, Susan P., The Social Control of Impersonal Trust, 57
Categorization
- ADDENDUM: Connects to the ‘On Sacrifice’ essay’s interest in institutional structures that stabilize social order across kinship lines; here the stabilizing mechanism is procedural rather than ritual.
Related
- Escalating trust guardianship distorts the original agency purpose (similarity 0.80)
- Trust can arise even when transactions are not embedded in social relations. (similarity 0.79)
- Trust is conceived both as one societal element and as social order itself (similarity 0.78)