Widespread trust consists of pockets of dyadic relationships, not generalized sentiment

Evidence

Incidentally, the claim of Adam Seligman (1997) and Niklas Luhmann (1980) that trust is a modern phenomenon may be correct if turned into a claim that it arises in relatively large communities in which we must rely on particularized networks and need not arise in small communities in which norms of cooperativeness handle the problems that trust relationships might have handled. The transition from smaller communities to relatively urban communities has proceeded further in many societies than in others, and national differences in the vocabulary of trust may correlate with the differential development. — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 823 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: All trust is relational and requires ongoing or reputational interaction; Iterated ongoing relationships are the largest source of trust in ordinary life.; Social capital consists of networks, not the trust they generate (+10 more)

Related

• Hostile larger societies drive stronger localized trust enclaves (similarity 0.87)
• Widespread civility and flourishing civil society reduce to shared personal trust (similarity 0.87)
• Trust is domain-specific, varying by context and relationship rather than globally. (similarity 0.87)
• Trust historically extended far beyond the narrow modern friend circle (similarity 0.86)
• Trust may have evolved from dense small-community interactions (similarity 0.86)
• Communal trustworthiness can seed willingness to trust in wider society (similarity 0.86)
• Generalized trust means trust toward strangers beyond one’s known circle. (similarity 0.86)
• Trust extends kin-group loyalty outward to the whole society (similarity 0.86)
• Generalized trust is defined as unspecific trust in strangers (similarity 0.85)
• Widespread trust decomposes into pockets of particular trusting relationships rather than generalized trust (similarity 0.84)
• Generalized trust is closer to expectation than to relationship-specific trust (similarity 0.84)
• Trust flourishes most where neither kinship nor contract obligations apply (similarity 0.83)
• Mainstream sociology has neglected trust as a theoretical concept. (similarity 0.83)
• Overlapping relationships in close communities generate both knowledge and incentives for trust. (similarity 0.83)
• Growth of communities inevitably pushes trust from personal to institutional forms (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Trust grows out of the specific relationship between the parties #corroborates (0.90)
• Communal trustworthiness can seed willingness to trust in wider society #qualifies (0.80) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 823
• Primary emotional attachments ground trust that later extends far beyond them #complicates (0.80)
• Trust historically extended far beyond the narrow modern friend circle #complicates (0.75)