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Trust and Social Context
Snježana PRIJIĆ- SAMARŽIJA
Sažetak
The question of trust, in the last decade moved from bit player to
center stage in various domains, from philosophy, psychology
and sociology to political science and economy, especially in organizational
theory. The interest in trust issues has been fueled, at
least in part, by accumulating empirical evidence that trust has a
number of important benefits for organizations or institutions and
their members. Remarkably, little effort has been made to
integrate these different perspectives of articulating the key role
that trust plays in social processes, i.e. in any kind of cooperative
activity. In the paper, the author is concerned with two different
global perspectives on trust: (i) philosopher's perspective (or
perspective of personality theories) as a primarily individual
perspective that stresses the individual personality differences or
character traits as the main motivational factor and the target of
trust-worthiness appraisal; (ii) the perspective in social psychology,
sociology, political sciences and economics which understand
trust as a mainly social and institutional phenomenon and focus
on the interpersonal transactions between individuals that create
or destroy trust. The main aim of this paper is to try to argue in
favor of a compromise contextual perspective between individual and social approaches as a perspective that is most promising in
detecting organizational or institutional barriers to the production
of trust.
Ključne riječi
trust; evidence; context; situationism; character traits
Hrčak ID:
18230
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Datum izdavanja:
30.6.2006.
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