The Ontology of Trust and the Transformation of Capitalism in a Knowledge Economy
Whether expressed in the vocabulary of Marx, Durkheim, or Weber, [classical] sociology posited a strong relationship between the economic changes introduced by large-scale manufacturing and the moral glue that made it possible for people to live together in communities of shared meaning. All these writers believed that such innovations as the factory system, the division of labor, and bureaucracy could not help but transform the moral rules that governed social interaction.