Rural Residents Of The Trust Model Study

Trust is a complex social phenomenon, so different scholars have different opinions about it:Some scholars from the microscopic point of view, thought that the individual character traits are the direct cause of the trust-building; But there also have other scholars from a macro point of view, they placed trust in society, taking into consideration about social relations, institutions and culture for establishment of trust. Generally speaking, trust not only can express personal characteristics, but also be effected by the social environment. Barber believed that Trust is in the performance of the expectations of the actors, and it is also as social structure and cultural variables, it will change while social change. So, this article pays attention on how social relations and cultural norms of rural residents affect their trust models? Empirical study will be processed in M village, in Anhui Province Huaibei city, this village is far from the city and it is relatively closed and backward. The research selected Aged/Middle aged/Youth generation who were born before the 1940s, about 1950s and after 1970s.They lived in different times, have different effects during social change, and the degree of social mobility is also different, resulting that their social relations and cultural norms will impact their trust models. Here the "trust model" refers to the meaning that in a different period, because the mode of production, social relations and values have tremendous changed, the impact of these changes are not synchronized for all the people, so the social trust, become to show different forms. In this paper, the author uses qualitative research method, data collection by interviews and this research try to interpret the meaning behind the interviews'words. Three propositions are going to be verified according to the theoretical issues:1. Inward oriented social relations, cultural norms on the family collective tendency, it is the emotional trust, the aged people's trust model; 2. Outward oriented social relations, cultural norms on the national collective tendency, it is the choice trust, the middle-aged people's trust model; 3. Outward oriented social relations, culture specifications on a personal tendency, it is the rational trust, the young people's trust model.