Garfinkel's Experiments with Trust...Giddens and Ontological Security

In his work on the routine nature ofthe everyday Garfinkel establishes that our actions in their orientation towards others depend on trust that others are engaged in the production of social order in a continuous fashion. The psycho-social impact of breaching established social rules is demonstrated in the case study where students visit their parents and demand to be treated as lodgers.
Here are two links to similar disorienting experiments or 'events'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwMj3PJDxuo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6EDAZ3crdY



Giddens

Giddens makes use of this idea in his work on ontological security although the term itself comes from the existential phenomenology of Paul Tillich (see The Courage to Be) via R.D. Laing's social psychology (see The Divided Self). Giddens mentions Laing in the intro. to The Constitution of Society. The effect is to link the social psychology of the agent with social structure i.e. by showing how changes in routine affect the mind. The inability to channel instinctual drives via routines results in the production of anxiety (see also Giddens' references to Erikson on developmental psychology here) .