Studies Of Modern Society Trust

Society is the product of countless people exchanges, whereas trust permeatesall activities of social interaction in the life of a human society. It is the cornerstoneof social solidarity, the lubricant of social functioning and the important factor ofsocial integration as an organic whole. As the basic cell of society, People, on onehand, need preserve the security of his own health, property, family and reputation asindividual. On the other hand, as social existence, he must establish contacts andcooperation with others and require recognition and help from others. Cooperationand exchanges is conducive to overcoming the limitations of personal capacity,information and so on, but at the same time in social activities it can bring certainpersonal uncertainties and risks to person, which constitutes the paradox betweentrust and distrust, that is, distrust of others will not be able to contact them, and trustalso contains certain risks inevitably. So in the course of human existence how toresolve this contradiction poses a fundamental problem. Especially in the era of thetransition from traditional society to modern society and with the arrival ofglobalization, the restriction of human interaction by time and space was weakened,the state of separation between the state and regional was broken, omnibearingcommunication and interaction are increasing day by day, thereby these phenomenaset higher demands on trust. It become extremely urgent to establish basic necessarytrust among members of society, all members of society to society functionalorganizations and the different nationalities of the international community. However,against all expectations, a host of facts indicate the shortage of social trust causesinterpersonal tension, social disorder, exorbitant exchanges cost and efficiency losses.It has seriously hindered China's economic and social development. According toconservative estimates, due to the shortage of trust, the invalid costs of the markettransaction has a share in GDP at least 10% to 20%, the annual direct and indirecteconomic losses amounts to 600 billion yuan, equivalent to 37% of China's fiscalrevenue. For this reason, GDP reduces two percentage point annually at least.Moreover, the social trust problem has extended to the political, economic, cultural,and social systems at all levels and fields. Some scholars attribute China's social trustproblem to commercial credit crisis, credibility crisis of public goods, interpersonaltrust crisis and value beliefs crisis.In view of the whole world, globalization makes the world become a globalvillage, the exchanges among countries become unprecedentedly frequent anddiverse, and the international community has entered an unprecedented times of amultiple trust crisis. For example, the trust crisis between the civilizations is thefundamental fuse of 9?11 events. It is difficult to resolve various regional conflicts.Nationalism has been expanding, trade protectionism has begun to gain ground andthe arms race results in great wealth waste. The trust crisis between enterprises andsociety since the Enron incident, World Link scandal, results in the major stockmarket collapse in the West. In addition, internet bubble, the real estate bubble andfinancial fraud cause the chaos of economic order and loss of confidence. Even inthe sharing of ecological crisis, atmospheric pollution and other global issues of theresponsibility of controversy, disputes also can seen everywhere because of mutualdistrust.Overall, the severe shortage of trust has become the most helpless and painfulreality faced by the global community. Based on this status quo, many internal andexternal scholars regard trust as a hot issue and carry on theoretical and empiricalresearch from the disciplines of their respective traditions such as psychology,sociology, social psychology, economics, management studies and ethics. On thebasis of these studies, this article makes multidimensional an inspection of the trustproblem of modern society from the height of the philosophical history with a viewof raising the entire concern for the seriousness of the trust problem and providingtheoretical support for a correct understanding of the root causes, status andcountermeasures of our social trust.Structurally this article can be divided into six chapters. Chapter I "the basicforms and the essence of social trust" carries on preliminary clarification andanalysis to the basic forms of trust on the basis of briefly expounding its meaningand analysis angle, and further explores the nature of social trust several dimensionssuch as interaction attitude, psychological social values, cultural patterns and socialcapital.Chapter II "the social trust model and its historic change" discusses in depth thelinks between social trust model and social interaction modalities and the mappingprocess of social trust model by taking Marxist philosophy historical materialismsocial existence determines social consciousness as guiding ideology. On this basis,combining the enormous changes in social production and exchanges mannerscaused by the social transition from traditional society to modern society, thischapter proves the objective necessity of the conversion of traditional personalitytrust model into the modern system trust model.Chapter III "social trust and the modern market economy" makes acomprehensive analysis of the mutual constructive relationship between the modernmarket economy and social trust, and points out that the modern market, as a newlease civilization, needs more social trust as its conditions and foundation ofexistence and development than any other forms of economy, that is, the marketeconomy inherently generates expectations and demands for social trust, andpromotes the development and improvement of social trust continuously. But at thesame time, decided by the nature that the market economy towards benefit and thestatus quo that our current economy system is imperfect, the market economy has acertain negative effect on social trust. Therefore, there is a need to further improveand perfect the market economic order to promote social trust and the modernmarket economy simultaneously.Chapter IV "social trust and the modern public life" appraises fully thedependence of the modern public life on social trust from the origination and specificcharacteristics of the modern public life. Particularly this chapter emphasizes that ithas become the key of constructing and maintaining the modern political order andpublic order and the core of modern public life that how public authority to establishits authority and credibility by functioning effectively. At the same time, the degreeof social trust has become a major problem that matters the normal functioning ofthe entire socio-political and economic life, that is, a major problem that matters thepeople's livelihood and social development and an important indicator of the level ofthe development of the modern society.Chapter V "International trust and the contemporary international order", basedon the background of the era of globalization and the problems arising in theinternational exchanges, points out that the global community has entered anunprecedented times of a multiple trust crisis, even in itself constitutes a globalproblem, and further elaborates the fundamental status of strengthening internationaltrust in the reconstruction of the new just, reasonable and equal international political,economic, cultural and security order.Chapter VI "the social trust problem of China in transition", by analyzing thebasic situation and serious damage of the social trust of China in transition of thebasic social trust situation and the serious damage, points out that the shortage oftrust has become a major pollutant and a major disease that severely affects oureconomic, political, cultural coordinated development and comprehensive socialprogress of our country. Finally, The paper explores in-depth the cause of the socialtrust problem and tries to point out some basic principles and concrete ways ofreconstructing Chinese social trust. It is noteworthy that this paper emphasizes thatgreater emphasis should be laid on establishing a universal system of social trust andinstitutional arrangements commitment for members of society except for traditionalmoral education.