ABSTRACT
Just as important as formal networks for the generation of trust were their informal counterparts. These comprised the neighbourhood, employment and leisure networks already discussed and a range of other casual associations. The first two sections of the chapter examine these networks and investigate the arenas in which they developed and were maintained – the pub, increasingly as the century progressed the habitat of the working class; the shop, an almost exclusively female space; and public pageants and funerals. The remainder of the chapter is devoted to a discussion of five miscellaneous determinants of trust, namely demographic change, the built environment, income, the media and happiness, which have been placed together largely for want of other suitable locations.
