Jamal Awil

← The Social Control of Impersonal Trust

One is to recognize that as a solution to the problem of order. [fact]

One is to recognize that as a solution to the problem of order, the embeddedness position is less sweeping than either alternative argument, since networks of social relations penetrate irregularly and in differing degrees in different sectors of economic life . . . The second is to insist that while social relations may indeed often be a necessary condition for trust and trustworthy behavior, they are not sufficient to guarantee these and may even provide occasion and means for malfeasance and conflict on a scale larger than in their absence.

Shapiro, Susan P., The Social Control of Imper…, loc. 11