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Working the Boardwalk.
- Source :
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Social Psychology Quarterly . Sep2015, Vol. 78 Issue 3, p228-245. 18p. - Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- 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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01902725
- Volume :
- 78
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Social Psychology Quarterly
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 109150283
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0190272515593606