Trust questions admit both abstract-analytical and case-study approaches

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

• XREF: Hooks into the reader’s method: treating the novel as the anthropological case study against analytical theory.