Trust In Modern Society

It is obvious that trust is an extrusive matter in social life. Beginning with the relationship between trust and the development of human being and society, the dissertation deals with the trust from the perspective of Marxist Homonology, and discusses some academic and practical subjects, such as the engendering and effecting mechanism, internal foundation of trust, and the roots of trust crisis.Trust is not only a mental state but an expressive communicating action. It is based on the anticipation and reassurance of the agent towards the outer world and other agents. The prominent characteristics of trust are inter-subjectivity, the understandable, and the unilateral as well as a mixture of cognition, emotion and will. The trust is composed of trustor, trustee, and trusting act. The same trust action can divided into different types.The article studies the engendering and effecting mechanism of trust. The trust relation results from the interaction between the trustor's experiences and outer circumstances. Impacting on the interest, the affection, the sense of responsibility, and the fear of punish, trust effects trustee's emotion and behavior. The trust relationship incurs a series of problems because of the trusting inertia. Therefore, it is reasonable for us to trust on the basis of the inherent rules of social life in practical situation, trying to avoid blind-trust or blind-worship.Trust comes from the personal and social initial needs, it is significant for both individuals and society. In trust, the individual can earn inner peace, self-identity, and can establish and exhibit his inner unitive personality, and hence becomes a social individual. As a social tie, trust interacts with the social developing state. The trusting form develops with the development of communicating conditions. And different trusting forms correspond to different social developing state and social relationship. Direct trust based on emotion and cognition is the main form in Gemeinschaft, while indirect trust based on intermediates is the main form in Gesellschaft. Indirect trust is based on direct trust and contains some components of the latter.During the age of social transformation, trust crisis is a pervasive phenomenon, which caused by insecurity and untrustworthiness. People have to reflect on the human existence and communicating ways, social developing situation, and the cultural evolutional way.The aim of the paper is to construct a new society of trust. Such society needs the incorporation of the trustor, the trustee and the social circumstances. And the focus is on trustworthiness. The trustworthiness includes the trustworthy person and trustworthy circumstances, and it needs the collective function in education, morality, legal system, and public opinion, besides the individual's self-consciousness. But besides all the functions above, improving the contemporary culture is of more importance. In order to cultivate the social agents'trustworthiness and willingness to trust, it is necessary to construct the right ideas of freedom, equality, and rationality.