Who Can We Trust? - How Groups, Networks, and Institutions Make Trust Possible (Hardcover)

Conventional wisdom holds that trust is essential for cooperation between individuals and institutions such as community organizations, banks, and local governments. Not necessarily so, according to editors Karen Cook, Margaret Levi, and Russell Hardin. Cooperation thrives under a variety of circumstances. Whom Can We Trust? examines the conditions that promote or constrain trust and advances our understanding of how cooperation really works. From interpersonal and intergroup relations to large-scale organizations, Whom Can We Trust? uses empirical research to show that the need for trust and trustworthiness as prerequisites to cooperation varies widely. Part I addresses the sources of group-based trust. One chapter focuses on the assumption versus the reality of trust among coethnics in Uganda. Another examines the effects of social-network position on trust and trustworthiness in urban Ghana and rural Kenya. And a third demonstrates how cooperation evolves in groups where reciprocity is the social norm. Part II asks whether there is a causal relationship between institutions and feelings of trust in individuals. What does and doesn t promote trust between doctors and patients in a managed-care setting? How do poverty and mistrust figure into the relations between inner city residents and their local leaders? Part III reveals how institutions and networks create environments for trust and cooperation. Chapters in this section look at trust as credit-worthiness and the history of borrowing and lending in the Anglo-American commercial world; the influence of the perceived legitimacy of local courts in the Philippines on the trust relations between citizens and the government; and the key role of skepticism, not necessarily trust, in a well-developed democratic society. Whom Can We Trust? unravels the intertwined functions of trust and cooperation in diverse cultural, economic, and social settings. The book provides a bold new way of thinking about how trust develops, the real limitations of trust, and when trust may not even be necessary for forging cooperation."

General

Imprint:	Russell Sage Foundation
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Russell Sage Foundation Series on Trust
Release date:	November 2009
First published:	November 2009
Editors:	Karen S Cook • Margaret Levi • Russell Hardin
Dimensions:	234 x 163 x 33mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	360
ISBN-13:	978-0-87154-315-8
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Associations, clubs, societies > General
LSN:	0-87154-315-X
Barcode:	9780871543158

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