Research On The Trust Crisis In Modern Society

The modern society is different from previous societies, and it develops from same characteristics to different ones, from unity to disintegration. But whatever society pattern is, the trust is an important slip of tie which joins person and person, person and society, and it acts badly on the building of well human relationships and the maintaining of stable society order. The trust in modern society is not based on the perceptual emotion, but the rational utilitarian reckoning, and this challenges the traditional trust which is based on the emotional relation between persons.The lacking of trust in modern society, descending of the trust sense and the trust in the purpose of oneself utility and so on, are the trust conditions that widespread existing in modern society, with the emerging of the crisis sense. So it is important to research on the deeply sources and social effects of the coming of trust crisis. At the same time, because of the special function of trust, dispelling the trust crisis and reconstructing of trust are urgently settled task. The paper explores this question with the base on the background of the modernity, and in the vision of social philosophy.The first part of the paper comprehends trust in the vision of modernity. Above all, we can see the common traits, the possibility of the emerging of trust and how it acts from analyzing the characters and mechanism of trust. Secondly, different social patterns take on different trust types, and we can see the process of historical change of trust models from the conventional trust in agricultural society to the agreemental trust in industrial society, and next to the cooperational trust in post-industrial society, meanwhile, this change put the new traits on trust in modern society and put forward new special challenges. Thirdly, how trust acts on the association relation between persons and on the social development and social order maintaining, the paper interprets detailedly.The second part expounds the trust crisis in the vision of modernity. The coming of the trust crisis has deeply inner source, this is the producing of the modernity that makes the separation between the rationalization of social form and the exceeding of value order, and breaks the balancing of two forces, But this is a general and logical exploring, meanwhile, the rapid expanding of implement rationalism leading to the losing of value rationalism, the modern industrial revolution accelerating the process of urbanization, the burgeoning of moral relativism making the losing of value standard that two trust sides abide by together, the sundering and lacking of the traditional trust resources in modern society and so on result in the producing of trust crisis, with many social effects, in the change of human's mental, people transfer from original active action to passive fatalism, leading to social disorder and stagnation of social development; the patriarchy inclination increasingly worsens in society; because of the impossibility of building of trust relation between persons, the cost of social development is badly increases and the risk of personal behaving is also rapidly increasing; the distrust between person and community, community and community leads to some people's concentrative settlement compelled by inner forces, and this is not beneficial to communication and interflow between persons, meanwhile, hindering the social normal development. The trust crisis puts destructive effects on social development and personal life, but at the same time, it gestates new opportunities. Its occurrence exposes many kinds of abuses in society itself, and this urges us to think the question of human existence and social development again.The third part inspects the trust reconstruction in the vision of modernity. The trust crisis leads to serious results and effects, so we must reconstruct trust in society and between persons. In modern society, the request of benefit and emotion relation between persons provides possibility to the reconstruction of trust, but this is not easy, we may face many challenges. The way of trust reconstruction have many aspects, the paper explores usefully. Firstly, we must reconstruct social capital in the core of trust and make it a kind of soft force participate in the social integration and development and competition with others. Secondly, we must reconstruct our traditional moral system and norm that is adapting to the development of modern society, and strengthen the leading of well moral customs to people. Thirdly, the government should set up a series of public policies to intervene the reconstruction of trust, formulate the rights and responsibilities of two trust sides from laws level and cultivate a well trust environment from external obligatory force. Finally, trust is related to the culture, only cultivating and forming a well trust environment and putting into people's mental, people can build well trust relation in it, at the same time, trust also can elaborate its function, and this is a long process, so we must always maintain the continuity of social norms and the stability of social order, and make the transparence of social organizations high.Only understanding the reasons and social effects of the emerging of trust crisis, we can formulate and carry out measures to dispel the trust crisis, and put forward useful ways of trust reconstruction. A well trust environment is important to the association between persons and social well development. So government and people must make grate effort to build a well trust environment which everyone live in and make everyone enjoy the well effects.