Widespread civility and flourishing civil society reduce to shared personal trust

Evidence

Trust as encapsulated-interest rules out the possibility or coherence not only of generalized trust but also of widespread trust by any individual. If there is widespread trust, it is therefore of the form that lots of people trust other particular people. That is to say, there are pockets of trusting relationships, and possibly almost everyone is included in such pockets. Alternatively, it may be that a typical individual is involved in various relatively small networks in which each trusts the others with respect to some range of issues. — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 803 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

When we have the thick relationships of a small, close community, we may find that our interactions are governed by norms of cooperativeness that are collective rather than dyadic. I behave well toward you because the community will sanction me if I do not. In such a case, the norms of cooperativeness may be sufficiently effective that we do not so readily develop dyadic trust relationships over many things, because those things are governed by the communal norms (Cook and Hardin 2000). — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 816 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Social trust and civic engagement co-vary across societies as one underlying factor. — Robert Putnam, Bowling Alone: America’s Declining…, 59; Communal trustworthiness can seed willingness to trust in wider society — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 823; Societal structure, not just individual strategy, shapes personal trust — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 188 (+9 more)

Related

• Widespread trust consists of pockets of dyadic relationships, not generalized sentiment (similarity 0.87)
• Social trust and civic engagement co-vary across societies as one underlying factor. (similarity 0.85)
• Civic virtue and mutual personal trust are the same achievement (similarity 0.85)
• Trust extends kin-group loyalty outward to the whole society (similarity 0.84)
• Hostile larger societies drive stronger localized trust enclaves (similarity 0.83)
• Trust may have evolved from dense small-community interactions (similarity 0.83)
• Dense civic networks enable trust, reciprocity and collective action. (similarity 0.82)
• Communal trustworthiness can seed willingness to trust in wider society (similarity 0.80)
• Relying on collective trustworthiness is a collective, not merely individual, problem. (similarity 0.80)
• Societal structure, not just individual strategy, shapes personal trust (similarity 0.80)
• Generalized trust is defined as unspecific trust in strangers (similarity 0.80)
• Trust historically extended far beyond the narrow modern friend circle (similarity 0.80)
• Widespread trust decomposes into pockets of particular trusting relationships rather than generalized trust (similarity 0.80)
• Community norms substitute for dyadic trust, so personal trust develops less. (similarity 0.80)
• Complex social systems cannot rest on individual feeling-based trust alone (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Widespread trust decomposes into pockets of particular trusting relationships rather than generalized trust #contradicts (0.85) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 803
• Community norms substitute for dyadic trust, so personal trust develops less. #contradicts (0.80) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 816
• Close communities substitute communal sanctioning norms for dyadic trust relationships #contradicts (0.78)
• Communal trustworthiness can seed willingness to trust in wider society #corroborates (0.75) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 823
• Modern society still depends on personal trust despite system complexity #corroborates (0.75) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 205
• Complex social systems cannot rest on individual feeling-based trust alone #contradicts (0.75) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 290
• Societal structure, not just individual strategy, shapes personal trust #qualifies (0.72) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 188
• Trustworthiness can be community-directed rather than partner-directed #contradicts (0.72) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 267
• Social backing from a whole society makes commitment trustworthy across time #qualifies (0.70) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 244