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[[Sociology]], in the context of this wiki, becomes more than just the study of society—it’s a lens for decoding the architecture of trust, agency, and digital interdependence. | [[Sociology]], in the context of this wiki, becomes more than just the study of society—it’s a lens for decoding the architecture of trust, agency, and digital interdependence. | ||
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Revision as of 13:27, 1 November 2025
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Sociology, in the context of this wiki, becomes more than just the study of society—it’s a lens for decoding the architecture of trust, agency, and digital interdependence.
Sociology, in the academic context focuses on the mob, rather than the individual since is was infused with physics envy from its beginning, where it is the collection of particles that are studied rather than the uncertainty of the single particle described by Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.
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Sociology Meets Digital Identity
- **Trust as a Social Construct**: Sociologists like Fukuyama and Coleman have long argued that trust underpins economic and civic life. In digital systems, this translates into protocols, credentials, and governance frameworks that simulate or scaffold interpersonal trust. - **From Interpersonal to Institutional to Digital Trust**: As Veselov and Skvortsov note, trust has evolved—from face-to-face relationships to institutional mechanisms, and now to algorithmic proxies in digital ecosystems. - **Social Networks as Trust Graphs**: The First Person Network reimagines social connectivity through decentralized trust graphs, where relationships are cryptographically attested rather than platform-mediated.
Empirical Insights
- A study using CGSS2021 data found that **internet use can erode social trust**, especially when it diminishes perceptions of fairness. However, **social support networks can buffer this effect**, suggesting that trust-aware design must include relational scaffolding. - Another analysis used **machine learning to model trust dynamics** on Facebook, revealing how connection strength and trustworthiness can be predicted through graph theory and behavioral data.
Implications for This Wiki
- **Agentic AI as Sociological Actors**: First Person AI agents aren’t just tools—they’re participants in a new kind of social game, where their behavior reflects encoded norms of trust, privacy, and reciprocity. - **Mutualist Governance as Sociological Innovation**: The cooperative model behind the First Person Network is a sociological experiment in polycentric governance—where legitimacy arises from consent and shared norms, not centralized authority.
If sociology is the study of how humans organize meaning and power, then Identity is a live case study in how those forces are being restructured in the digital age.
