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  T3 Group - Trust across Disciplines - Risk in trust, regarding sociology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
In his classic model of trust, Coleman argues that the decision of an actor to trust or not is a function of the expected gain and loss involved.
It is the lack of this awareness that is the expression of trust, which may be regarded as a state where we do not have particular expectations, where the situation is undefined.
Our socio-cognitive approach is close to the sociological view of the relationship between risk and trust and is critic to the (rather semplicistic, in our opinion) economic theory: read Castelfranchi and Falsone's paper about the implications of risky decision and the contribution of cognitive theory on the topic.
www.istc.cnr.it /T3/map/cells/ris-soc.html   (1099 words)

  
  Trust (sociology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Trust in sociology and psychology refers to an open, positive relationship between people, or between people and social institutions such as a corporation or government.
Trust can be said to be the basis of all social institutions.
Trust is also studied by economists, for example in the context of the Trust game.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trust_(sociology)   (259 words)

  
 Baylor University || Sociology and Anthropology || Trust & Civic Engagement   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Research on trust and civic engagement shows that trust is an important predictor (pre-condition) of belonging to voluntary organizations (Stolle 2001) and participating in those organizations by volunteering time and talent (see Urslaner 2002).
While a number of social contexts related to trust have been explored, such as education, income, nation of residence, and family socialization patterns (see Nee and Sanders 2001; Stolle 2001), what is of particular interest to us is the role that religion, and all of the social phenomena (e.g.
National data on trust collected after the events of September 11, 2001 are needed to examine these relationships because the nature of trust in the United States may be different than it was three years ago.
www.baylor.edu /sociology/index.php?id=17747   (1147 words)

  
 Trust - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Trust (19th century), an entity used in the late 19th century with intent to create a monopoly
Trusted system, a system where there is no choice but to trust
Trust (band), was a French hard rock band, rose to fame around 1980
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trust   (228 words)

  
 Trust
A trust is a large business entitity that tries to control a market and/or become a monopoly.
A trust is a legal arrangement for the control of property on someone's behalf.
In cryptography, trust is either of two related concepts - how much one trusts another person to introduce keys, and how confident one is that a given key has a given owner.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/t/tr/trust.html   (308 words)

  
 T3 Group - Trust across Disciplines - Expectations in trust, regarding sociology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
When we say we trust someone or that someone is trustworthy, we implicitly mean that the probability that he will perform an action that is beneficial or at least not detrimental to us is high enough for us to consider engaging in some form of cooperation with him.
Trust is better seen as a threshold point, located on a probabilistic distribution of more general expectations, which can take a number of values suspended between complete distrust (0) and complete trust (1), and which is centred around a mid-point (0.50) of uncertainty.
For example, Barber characterized trust as a set of "socially learned and socially confirmed expectations that people have of each other, of the organizations and institutions in which they live, and of the natural and moral social orders that set the fundamental understandings for their lives".
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 trust - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about trust   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
A trust can be a legal arrangement under which A is empowered to administer property belonging to B for the benefit of C. A and B may be the same person; B and C may not.
A unit trust holds and manages a number of marketable securities; by buying a ‘unit’ in such a trust, the purchaser has a proportionate interest in each of the securities so that his or her risk is spread.
Competition is thus eliminated, and in the USA both types were outlawed by the Sherman Antitrust Act 1890 (first fully enforced by ‘trust buster’ Theodore Roosevelt, as in the breakup of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey by the Supreme Court 1911).
encyclopedia.farlex.com /trust   (346 words)

  
 Economic Sociology - European Electronic Newsletter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The truster can place trust rationally in a given trust game if he/she receives from the trustee a signal of trustworthiness that is reliable because a trustworthy trustee can afford to send it whereas an untrustworthy trustee could not.
Trust, in contrast, “begins where prediction ends” (Lewis and Weigert 1985: 976) which, however, is also the point where rational choice theory ends.
Garfinkel 1967) might have induced Gambetta and Hamill to describe trust as an accomplishment in the interaction of truster and trustee who are involved in a complex process of socially constructing a state of precarious normalcy and predictability which goes beyond mechanical signaling.
econsoc.mpifg.de /current/7-2_art6.asp   (1372 words)

  
 Sociology (from social science) --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Sociology came into being in precisely these terms, and during much of the century it was not easy to distinguish between a great deal of so-called sociology and social or cultural anthropology.
Sociology would be to the whole of the social world what each of the other great sciences was to its appropriate sphere of reality.
Both declared sociology's main divisions to be “statics” and “dynamics,” the former concerned with processes of order in society, the latter with processes of evolutionary change in society.
www.britannica.com /ebc/article-38926   (1388 words)

  
 Elements of Trust: The Cultural Dimension of Internet Diffusion Revisited1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Trust is a complex construct with multiple dimensions, and their relative effects on innovative actions may be highly dependent on their respective social context.
Trust as a cultural resource raises the overall innovative capacity of a social system, since it allows economic and also political agents to take advantage of their extended potential for action.
Because rational trust is grounded in agents’ experiences and does not need to be intrinsically motivated, it is safe to suggest that with regard to the object of trust, rational trust in modernity is fundamentally related to and secured by systems (Luhmann [1968] 1989; Giddens 1991).
www.sociology.org /content/vol006.004/volken.html   (8521 words)

  
 Scientific status (from sociology) --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Contemporary sociology is indeed marked by all these shortcomings, but in general there has been progress toward clearer communication and improved methodology, both of which yield more reliable data.
Bias is sometimes presumed to be a chronic affliction of sociology.
This may arise in part from the fact that the subject matter of sociology is familiar and important in everyone's daily life.
www.britannica.com /ebc/article-222984   (1394 words)

  
 BUBL LINK: Sociology
The Association aims to advance sociology as a science and profession, promoting the contribution and use of sociology to society.
Sociologies of Health and Illness ELearning Databank (SHIELD) produced resource - An interdisciplinary project to create a sustainable and content-rich databank of re-usable e-learning resources which may be shared between disciplines and across institutions, supporting staff and students to embrace technological change and embed it into their practice.
Quarterly electronic journal of sociology for applied sociology, focusing on theoretical, empirical, and methodological discussions which engage with current political, cultural, and intellectual topics and debates.
bubl.ac.uk /link/s/sociology.htm   (946 words)

  
 SaPT- Social and Political Trust - Sociology - University of Surrey
It is led by Dr Patrick Stugis and Dr Nick Allum of the Department of Sociology at the University of Surrey.
Interpersonal, or social trust has been proposed as key to variation in economic growth, rates of criminal offending and victimisation, morbidity, quality of life and the stability of democratic systems of government.
While theoretical notions of trust as a 'social lubricant' are founded on the premise that trust is generated through interpersonal networks and social interaction, it is plausible that the mechanism also runs in the opposite direction.
www.sapt.surrey.ac.uk   (268 words)

  
 english20007
Trust and cooperation: An experimental study of PD with choice of dependence.
Trust and assurance of cooperation in ongoing relations: An experimental study usig the prisoner’s dilemma with variable dependence.
Trust as a signal in relations with temporary partners.
lynx.let.hokudai.ac.jp /members/yamagishi/english.htm   (2432 words)

  
 Sociology of Professions
Inspired by Pierre Bourdieu and by the interactionnist sociology of professional groups, this study is based manely on observations and in-depth interviews carried out with musicians and concerts organizers in a french city (Evreux 27000) in 2001-2002.
In the wake of uncertainty the call for trust is echoed by an extension of professionalism to new occupational fields and new actors, and at the same time by the need for control and bureaucratic regulation.
The anglo-saxon sociology of the professions frequently mentions a "continental model" in the formation of professional groups, both characterized by the leading role of the state in creating new jurisdictions and by the specific position of the latter as legitimating instance.
www.um.es /ESA/Abstracts/Abst_rn15.htm   (14065 words)

  
 The Dartington Hall Trust Archive Collection Guide
This series consists of Dartington Hall Trust records, accumulated by John (Jock) Currie in his capacity as Dartington agricultural economist and farm advisor (1927-1956).
Trust Sociology records consist of reports and correspondence relating to the Dartington Hall Studies in Rural Sociology series of publications, and other sociological studies connected with Dartington.
The Dartington Hall Science Laboratory began in 1927 for the purposes of providing scientific education for pupils at the School and critically evaluating the scientific viability of Trust enterprises.
www.dartingtonarchive.org.uk /admin_coll_edu_research.html   (349 words)

  
 Interdisciplinary influences (from sociology) --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Political sociology, for example, studied the social basis of party voting and partisan politics, spurring comparison of decision-making processes in city, state, and national governments.
Still, sociologists split along ideological lines, much as they had in the functionalist-conflict divide, with some reporting that decisions were made pluralistically and democratically and others insisting that decisions were made by economic and political elites.
Stratification studies and organizational sociology were broadened to include economic phenomena such as labour markets and the behaviour of businesses.
www.britannica.com /ebc/article-222973   (1084 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Trust: ..From Socrates to Spin: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The next three chapters consider, from the point of view of someone in a stable western democracy, how trust as we know today was developed over the centuries, makes us work together over common goals and what social and moral aspects were inherited from the ruling religious and political institutions since biblical times.
He justifies, rightfully, that discussing the western philosophy and sociology behind trust is already a very complex task to achieve and no single book "could make an exhaustive account of all important movements and events", and this is the most familiar society for him to write about.
This kind of trust, according to the author, is based on the fact that in a global and complex society we have no option but to replace the trust based on personal experience for one based in institutions.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/184046531X   (884 words)

  
 p2p trust : bibliography
Trust is not fl and white, meaning that someone is either trusted or not.
And trust is not monolithic, meaning that trust people are not all trusted to the same degree and in the same contexts.
This is interesting in terms of trust because DNS is an example of a component of a system where a large number of entities trust a small number of other entities.
www.p2ptrust.org /bibliography.html   (9491 words)

  
 The Structure of Trust: Business Evidence | katin.com: community, sociology, ontology.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
By efficiently trusting, I mean being able to rapidly assess what people can do, if they will fulfill on the promises they make to you, and being able to manage trust one-on-one, in a group, and over the Internet.
Imagine for a moment that there was a structure to trust; a blueprint or building plan that had a component list and instructions for the process of combining and assembling these components into any kind of trust that you wanted.
That is so much better than trusting, hoping for the best, and then ending up with your worst fears come to life: you're out on a limb because someone has left you in the lurch.
www.katin.com /?q=node/5   (3018 words)

  
 Parental Divorce Has Minimal Effect On Children's Ability To Trust   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Children of divorce or who experience family instability are not automatically less trusting in their adult relationships than their peers from intact families, a Penn State study shows.
King and Dr. Alan Booth, professor of sociology and human development at Penn State, presented their research in the paper, "Family Instability and Interpersonal Trust," at the recent annual meeting of the Population Association of America in Los Angeles.
Early parental divorce and family instability have an initial negative impact on offspring's trust of the mother, but this becomes less significant once the quality of the parent-child relationship is taken into account.
www.gendercenter.org /divorcetrust.htm   (485 words)

  
 sociology - Social psychology
Sociology is the study of group behavior and human societies, with emphasis on the structures of societies and the processes of social influence.
It can be said to be co-disciplinary with sociology and psychology, providing overlapping theories and research methods in order to form a clearer and more robust picture of social life.
Trust (sociology) - a belief in the competence and/or benevolence of another actor.
www.aboutsociology.com /sociology/Social_psychology   (2688 words)

  
 Pub Sociology: Trust and stock pricing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The article cites a paper by economists Luigi Guiso, Paola Sapienza, and Luigi Zingales that demonstrates that trust is an important cultural predictor of economic exchange.
Perceptions of trust affecs the extent to which European citizens trade with and invest in a foreign country.
Trust in a country, in turn, is shaped by country characteristics including religion, historical conflict, and genetic similarity.
pubsociology.typepad.com /pub/2005/10/trust_and_stock.html   (294 words)

  
 Angelcrow's Xanga Site
However, a generalized moral need not necessarily result in the generalization of trust, since the expansion of trust is inherently dependent on a cooperative and inclusive ethos.
The term moral trust, as it is used here, therefore refers to norms, values, and attitudes which enable and foster the generalization of cooperative actions.
My problems with trusting someone or trusting relationships it is one I am working on really hard.
www.xanga.com /Angelcrow   (5034 words)

  
 The transformation of trust? Exploring the utility of 'trust' as a social scientific concept
Similarly, sociological and other social-scientific discussions of trust are characterised by imprecision and ambiguity, which, although tolerable in everyday conversation, is unacceptable if `trust' is to be employed as a concept with some theoretical utility.
Trust is worthy of the attention of health/medical sociologists, not only because doctors appear to be concerned about it, but because trust relates to such topical and widely debated sociological issues as consumerism (and hence to debates on post-modernity) and knowledge/ communication in the context of the doctor-patient relationship.
With respect to the transformation of trust, it addresses debates concerning the changing nature of trust and links these to debates about `the rise of consumerism' in health care and the nature of `lay' and `medical' knowledge.
hsr.e-contentmanagement.com /7.0/7.0.1.php   (562 words)

  
 Climate of Trust Council - Contact   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
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www.climateoftrust.org /contact.htm   (47 words)

  
 Sociology of Trust Towards a Sociology of `E-trust' (ResearchIndex)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Sociology of Trust Towards a Sociology of `E-trust' (ResearchIndex)
Sociology of Trust Towards a Sociology of `E-trust
Divided into three sections the paper first asks the question of why trust is important to the development and implementation of e-commerce and suggests some of the areas where user trust is specifically important.
citeseer.ist.psu.edu /500769.html   (184 words)

  
 "Trust Yourself" Dream Workshops by Michael and Nicole Sebastian
Sociology of Soul is about trusting ourselves and directing our own journey.
Sociology of Soul teaches us how to obtain these answers from the only true source---ourselves.
This book teaches us how to restore our self-confidence and know with certainty that every decision we make is the right decision.
www.thedreamdudes.com /sos.html   (273 words)

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