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Francis Fukuyama argued that large-scale economic coordination depends on "spontaneous sociability" beyond family clans — but he and later scholars stress that such trust is cultivated by history, religion, state quality, and inequality, not written in genes. High-trust societies often combine strong institutions with everyday norms learned in schools, workplaces, and media.
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Social trust
- Core idea Trust beyond kin
- Payoff Lower transaction costs
- Institutions Courts, norms, media
- Scholarly frame Putnam, Fukuyama
- Debate Diversity critiques
- Not this No trust-by-race
Blood groups
- Systems ABO · Rh · many
- Pattern Frequency clines
- Clinical Matching saves lives
- Forensics Weak ancestry signal
- Evolution Pathogen hypotheses
- Universal donor Context-dependent
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Social trust · Social trust is the willingness to assume that strangers will fo
Social trust is the willingness to assume that strangers will follow basic rules — paying debts, not stealing, honoring contracts, telling the truth in public life. Robert Putnam popularized "social capital" to capture how dense networks of association and generalized trust make cooperation cheaper: less lawyering, less surveillance, faster deals.
Social trust · Francis Fukuyama argued that large-scale economic coordination d
Francis Fukuyama argued that large-scale economic coordination depends on "spontaneous sociability" beyond family clans — but he and later scholars stress that such trust is cultivated by history, religion, state quality, and inequality, not written in genes. High-trust societies often combine strong institutions with everyday norms learned in schools, workplaces, and media.
Social trust · This page explains trust as competitiveness: when people expect
This page explains trust as competitiveness: when people expect fairness from unknown others, markets deepen, tax compliance rises, and public goods get funded. It is not a racial trait. Surveys that compare countries or neighborhoods describe institutional and cultural outcomes — never IQ-by-group ranks or cranial hierarchies.
Social trust · What is generalized vs particularized trust?
Particularized trust targets people you know — kin, co-ethnic networks. Generalized trust extends to strangers and abstract institutions. Economic scale usually needs the second kind, backed by courts and norms when personal ties fail. No. Homogeneity is sometimes correlated with trust in surveys because of shared history and smaller inequality — not because mixing races erodes some biological virtue.
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This page explains trust as competitiveness: when people expect fairness from unknown others, markets deepen, tax compliance rises, and public goods get funded. It is not a racial trait. Surveys that compare countries or neighborhoods describe institutional and cultural outcomes — never IQ-by-group ranks or cranial hierarchies.
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This describes culture, language, or population. It does not rank races or peoples. It does not replace the full topic page.
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Particularized trust targets people you know — kin, co-ethnic networks. Generalized trust extends to strangers and abstract institutions. Economic scale usually needs the second kind, backed by courts and norms when personal ties fail. No. Homogeneity is sometimes correlated with trust in surveys because of shared history and smaller inequality — not because mixing races erodes some biological virtue.
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