TY - JOUR
T1 - Working the Boardwalk
T2 - Trust in a Public Marketplace
AU - Orrico, Laura A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2015/9/27
Y1 - 2015/9/27
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1177/0190272515593606
DO - 10.1177/0190272515593606
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84940022803
SN - 0190-2725
VL - 78
SP - 228
EP - 245
JO - Social Psychology Quarterly
JF - Social Psychology Quarterly
IS - 3
ER -