Consistency And Conflict: Research On Trust Type And Civil Society Structure

In the contemporary social sciences domain, trust and civil society as the twotopics have become a focal point, more and more social scientists pay more attentionto them. In a long historical perod, trust and civil society is respectively attracts socilscientists.In80s and90s of20thcentury, the revival of the civil society in the westprovides a opportunity for talking about the relationships between trust and civilsociety. Both trust and civil society are closely related with people, in essence, trust isrelated to relations between people and people, and civil society is essentially relatedto the pursuit of perfect social order. People hope to live in perfect social order, itbrings to the certainty, and every body is not abide by the law of the jungle of Hobbes,but the logic of trust throughout the development process. When people start to needsomething, finding to it is disappearing. The paradox of social development and theglobalization of trust crisis, has led to increasing uncertainty, it influences to people’ssurvival and life, trust plays an important role in simplifying the complexity, and atthe same time, civil as a symbol to a perfect social order has completely loses theautonomy under the logic of the late capitalism, it provides a new need to get theperfect social order throughout rebuild the civil society, trust and civil society start tointerweaving.The relationship between trust and civil society reveals the importance ofcross-section to the society, but it not reveals the relationships in the process of socialchange. In the process of social change, the structure of trust and civil society are allchanged, what is the relationships between trust and civil society and how it happen?How trust type is produced? civil society structural charaterisitc in different historicalperiods is how to regulate? what is the inner link between trust types and civil society?these topics constitute the starting point. This paper hope to propose a analyticalframework, to analyse the relationship between trust and the structure of civil society.People stand different standpoint hold different perspective for understanding,analysising and interpretating society. The traditional society, the modern society andthe postmodern society constitute a classical analytical framework.The structuralfunctionalism theory and conflict theory are different two classical theory of socialchange, they explore the social change frome different aspects.Based on the theory ofsocial change, construct a analytic framework, to analysis the relationships betweentrust types and the structure of civil society.This paper will be divided into six parts.The first part of “introduction”.this part mainly puts forword the subjects of the background and the importancesignificance,and make a literature review on trust, civil society and the relationshipsbetween trust and civil society, and provide the solid foundation for the constructionof theoretical framework.The second,“trust structure change and civil society structure change:concept,theory and frame work”. First of all, propose the social change is the logical premiseof trust structure change and civil society structure.it contains two concepts:the broadand the narrow. Structural functionalism and conflict theory constitue the classicaltheory of social change. Trust change means trust structure change in essential, withthe social change, trust experienced special trust, general trustand system trust. Thestructure of civil society including internal and external structure. In historicaldimension,civil society structure has undergone a classical civil society structure,modern civil society structure,and the contemporary civil society structure.Based onthe structural functionalism and conflict theory, we build up a analytical framework oftrust types and civil society structure change.on the one hand, they have a unified side,on the other hand, there are separated. Unity reflects the stable of social order,separation reflects the development of social order.The third,“special trust and the classical civil society structure”. The specialtrust is the first type, it needs special occurrence mechanism; the classical civilstructure has different aspects and significance; explaining the cause of unity andanalysis the division of the trend and the process.The fourth,“universial trust and the modern civil society structure”. With thedevelopment of society, it needs a new trust type and civil society structure. Here,analysis the background of the general trustand interpretate the general trust fromphilosophy, political science, economics, sociology. Secondly, The modern civilsociety is difined as the economic society and market society, the economic andmarket society constitute its essence attribute, economic society and market societyare different stage, they reflect the developing stage of modern civil society structure,the economic society is the first stage, the market society is the second. The formerand the general trust are promete each other, the latter show the other side. Especiallywhen economic society turn to market society, the modern civil society against thefeudal hierarchy structure and once revolutionary forces begin to lost revolutionary,gradually becoming the conservative fore. The general trust dissimilated, the specialinterest replace the general interest constitue the foundation of society, especially when the state and the society are intertwined, the risk of state socialization andsociety nationalization require new the trust foundations and rebuild the civil society.The fifth part,“system trust and the contemporary civil society”. This partanalysis the background and characteristic of the system trust. The contemporary civilsociety has experienced four great changes, there are four representatives.cultureessence is the common nature attribute, reveal the common characteristic of thecontemporary civil society. Based on the separation of the state and the society, putforword the three dimension structure of state, market and society through reflectionof state socialization and society nationalization, and analysis the relationshipbetween the system trust and the contemporary civil society.The final part,“conclusion”. This part makes a conclusion, summarizing thebasic argument.