Working the Boardwalk
Trust in a Public Marketplace
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11326040 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laura A Orrico (0000-0002-8728-344X, Pomona College, Claremont, CA, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 78 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 228-245 |
| Publication date | 2015-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Psychology Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0190-2725 • E-ISSN: 1939-8999 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0190272515593606 |
| OpenAlex | W2198206819 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 47 |
This article argues that trust emerges as a key interactional mechanism through which vendors, artists, and performers that work in a public marketplace turn daily conditions of uncertainty into enduring stability. Drawing on four years of ethnographic data, I empirically illustrate a process of building, maintaining, and protecting trust. Following trust from the level of one-on-one interaction through to the level of a community, I expose the particular interactional work trust does for different people across different situations. In the end, the way a social psychological mechanism plays out over time has significant social and material consequences for people working under highly uncertain conditions
Epistemology · Ethnography · EXPOSE · Mechanism (biology · Political science · Process (computing · Public relations · Sociology · Work (physics · Computer Science · Emotional Labor in Professions · Management and Organizational Studies · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2024 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |