Trust questions admit analytical and anthropological research routes
Evidence
There are, it seems to me, two ways of approaching these questions, one of which is analytical and the other, for want of a better description, anthropological. The former pursues a general abstract route; the latter illuminates matters by compiling and analysing historical case studies. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 850
Categorization
Category: Craft and Method
- XREF: The analytical/anthropological dichotomy maps onto the two bodies of evidence in the Luhmann/Hardin synthesis — one theoretical, one case-based.
Related
- Trust questions admit both abstract-analytical and case-study approaches (similarity 0.94)
- Concrete examples function as research strategies for trust theory (similarity 0.82)
- Trust sits between faith and confidence, where evidence is balanced by affectivity. (similarity 0.81)
- Trust alone cannot explain modern social order. (similarity 0.79)
- Trust theory does not assume purely self-interested choice (similarity 0.79)
- Trust is conceived both as one societal element and as social order itself (similarity 0.78)
- Luhmann aimed his trust theory at empirical application (similarity 0.78)
- Trust and trustworthiness are asymmetrical because only trusting carries significant risk of exploitation (similarity 0.78)
- Trust is merely evidence-based expectation while trustworthiness is motivational (similarity 0.78)