Trust functions as a social mechanism managing complexity. [definitional]
Luhmann's identification of trust in relation to complexity as being a social not just a psychological coping mechanism had an impact on several other influential sociologists in the Anglophone world.
XREF: Connects to Luhmann's systems theory and sociological treatments of risk and trust similar to Giddens and Beck.
Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, loc. 26