Trusting the other or taking a chance? An investigation of chance and trust temporalities

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5117935
AutoresMorten Frederiksen (0000-0001-5550-0537, Aalborg University), Marie Bruvik Heinskou (0000-0002-0733-7912, University of Copenhagen)
Año2016
Volumen25
Número2
Páginas374-392
Fecha de publicación2016-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaTime & Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0961-463X • E-ISSN: 1461-7463
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0961463x15577267
OpenAlexW2215915427
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas23

Theories of modernity and risk society argue that increasing levels of risk fundamentally alter or lower the level of trust in society. In this article we argue that this assumption is based in a fallacious theoretical link between trust and risk. Rather than calculative assessment of risk and specific events, trust directs anticipation towards process. First, we outline dominant approaches to trust as a question of actions and uncertainty of outcomes, arguing that these approaches treat trust and chance as interchangeable, conflating the different socio-temporalities within which risk and trust, respectively, reside. Secondly, the issue of temporality is traced in Luhmann's work on trust and it is demonstrated how his dichotomous treatment of social time conflates markedly different temporal experiences. As a solution to this, the article presents the notion of a third temporal mode of the process present from Deleuze's concept of becoming. This is theoretically reconnected to the process present to trust theory, arguing that the uncertainty trust deals with, is connected to process experience rather than expectations of the future. Finally, we discuss the theoretical and empirical consequences of a socio-temporal distinction between trust and chance, and argue that trusting is an epistemological slip and space of non-reflexivity, that transform time to process

Anticipation (artificial intelligence · Economics · Epistemology · Modernity · Political science · Positive economics · Process (computing · Sociology · Temporalities · Temporality · Computer Science · Critical Realism in Sociology · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Social Representations and Identity