Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 07:31:56 -0600
From: lampincj-AT-ctrvax.Vanderbilt.Edu (Christopher J. Lamping)
Subject: Re: Trust


>In the Logic of Practice B. develops the theme from Mauss of
>double-sidedness in
>giving - both social and economic and deplores the economism which destroys the
>social fabric surrounding giving.  I am involved in writing a paper about the
>economics of trust - the connection suggetes itself between Luhmann's situating
>the trusting agent in the structiure of the firm.  B.'s approach suggests a
>double situation in the dscourse of the firm and the discourse of social life.
>In fact B.'s agents plainly exist in ovelapping fields - but does he ever
>discuss the consequences of this for their action?  It must be the case that
>they are capable of multiple social sets of skills and strategies, and that the
>ploys of one field are the hypocrisies of another eg corporate entertaining.
>Anthony Beck.
>
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I may be conflating two things you'd want to keep separate, but have a look
at his discussions of symbolic capital/violence which he argues is in
essence 'credit'.


cheers,












Christopher J. Lamping
Department of History and Critical Theory of Religion
Vanderbilt University
email:lampincj-AT-ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu

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