Sociology and Social Policy Seminar | A Big Word: Mixing and Matching Meanings of Trust at Work
In an era of deinstitutionalisation, informal mechanisms of ordering social life become increasingly salient. Sociologists have long viewed trust as central to the establishment of social order, yet previous accounts of trust have under-theorised its emergent, contested and performative qualities. In this piece, I use the case of the American workplace – where traditional structures …