Advances in the sociology of trust and cooperation : theory experiments and field studies Frontmatter Contents 1. Complementary Studies on Trust and Cooperation in Social Settings: An Introduction 2. Institutional Design and Human Motivation: The Role of Homo Economicus Assumptions 3. Rational Choice Theory the Model of Frame Selection and Other Dual Process Theories. A Critical Comparison 4. Too Simple Models in Sociology: The Case of Exchange 5. Rational Exploitation of the Core by the Periphery On the Collective (In)efficiency of Endogenous Enforcement of Universal Conditional Cooperation in a Core Periphery Network 6. Reputation Effects Embeddedness and Granovetter’s Error 7. Robustness of Reputation Cascades 8. Organized Distrust: If it is there and that Effective Why Three Recent Scandals 9. Polarization and Radicalization in the Bounded Confidence Model: A Computer Aided Speculation 10. Local Brokerage Positions and Access to Unique Information 11. Who Gets How Much in Which Relation A Flexible Theory of Profit Splits in Networks and its Application to Complex Structures 12. Social Identity and Social Value Orientations 13. Does Money Change Everything Priming Experiments in Situations of Strategic Interaction 14. Social Norms and Commitments in Cooperatives – Experimental Evidence 15. Rational Choice or Framing Two Approaches to Explain the Patterns in the Fehr Gächter Experiments on Cooperation and Punishment in the Contribution to Public Goods 16. Maverick: Experimentally Testing a Conjecture of the Antitrust Authorities 17. Cooperation Reputation Effects and Network Dynamics: Experimental Evidence 18. Comparing Consequences of Carrots and Sticks on Cooperation in Repeated Public Good Games 19. A Sociological View on Hierarchical Failure: The Effect of Organizational Rules on Exchange Performance in Buyer Supplier Transactions 20. Organizational Innovativeness Through Inter Organizational Ties 21. A Transaction Cost Approach to Informal Care 22. Trust is Good – Or is Control Better Trust and Informal Control in Dutch Neighborhoods – Their Association and Consequences 23. Religious Diversity and Social Cohesion in German Classrooms: A Micro Macro Study Based on Empirical Simulations Notes on the Editors and Contributors The problem of cooperation and social order is one of the core issues in the social sciences. The key question is how humans groups institutions and countries can avoid or overcome the collective good dilemmas that could lead to a Hobbesian war of all against all . Using the general set of social dilemmas as a paradigmatic example rigorous formal analysis can stimulate scientific progress in several ways. The book consisting of original articles provides state of the art examples of research along these lines: theoretical experimental and field studies on trust and cooperation. The theoretical work covers articles on trust and control reputation formation and paradigmatic articles on the benefits and caveats of abstracting reality into models. The experimental articles treat lab based tests of models of trust and reputation and the effects of the social and institutional embeddedness on behavior in cooperative interactions and possibly emerging inequalities. The field studies test these models in applied settings such as cooperation between organizations informal care and different kinds of collaboration networks. The book will be exemplary for rigorous sociology and social sciences more in general in a variety of ways: There is a focus on effects of social conditions in particular different forms of social and institutional embeddedness on social outcomes. Theorizing about and testing of effects of social contexts on individual and group outcomes is one of the main aims of sociological research. Modelling efforts include formal explications of micro macro links that are typically easily overlooked when argumentation is intuitive and impressionistic Extensive attention is paid to unintended effects of intentional behavior another feature that is a direct consequence of formal theoretical modelling and in depth data analyses of the social processes. By combining different empirical methods on the same questions essentially the book sets forth a mixed method design across chapters allowing for a more convincing body of evidence per underlying question Some theoretical contributions re evaluate what has been learned from the experimental and field results about the strengths and weaknesses of the earlier theoretical propositions and extend the theory in light of these findings