Jamal Awil

← The Social Control of Impersonal Trust

Sources of trust can enable trust's own abuse. [causal]

The article also amplifies Granovetter's second propositionthat the sources of trust may (ironically) provide the opportunity and means for its abuse. It describes the social-control strategies that respond to these abuses of trust and exposes the dialogue between deviance and social control that befuddles the institution of impersonal trust.

DEFINE: Expresses Granovetter's second proposition about trust: the same structures that generate trust also provide opportunity for its violation, plus the social-control responses to that abuse.

Shapiro, Susan P., The Social Control of Imper…, loc. 13