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• Trust, distrust, self-trust

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  Zoltán Grünhut

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  105

  The current paper attempts to embrace trust and distrust as emotions, as well as showing trust or distrust as cognitively justified decisions in one coherent theoretical framework. It links these emotional and action-like domains together by the notion of self-trust which is interpreted as a form of rationale. The argument claims that self-trust of those people who are able to trust others functions in a completely different way in compare to the one of distrusting subjects.

• Reframing of Particular Trust

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  Zoltán Grünhut

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  59

  The paper strives to reconsider the theory of particular trust, i.e. one’s trusting feelings towards her/his most intimate relatives, friends, and personal relations. By doing this, at first, the paper sheds light on two distinct interpretations of particular trust in the literature. One of these approaches addresses particular trust as a kind of core disposition of the self, and it describes how one’s trust towards her/his bonding relations establishes the given subject’s generalized trust towards others, in a broad sense, to people as such. The other interpretation argues that particular trust is important for group-level social dynamics. It claims that if members of close-knit and exclusive groups, dominated by particular trust, are interacting only with each other, and avoiding out-group relations, then broader social cooperation and collaboration are constrained, social integration and cohesion are limited, and on macro level there is an unfolding distrust. As it seems, the above-described readings of particular trust are contradictory. The current paper stresses that just one of these interpretations is coherent and consistent – the first one. 

• Informality: the Culture of Treating Others Instrumentally: An Essay about the Dynamics of the Relationship between Social Relations and Trust

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  Zoltán Grünhut

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  51

  The current paper, without scientific systematization and artistic meditation, tries to address
  life itself (the normatively understood ‘good life’) in an essayist way. It strives to draw up some
  core pillars of a research program about a commonly known everyday phenomenon, informality,
  more precisely its distorted form which is inducing social inequalities and injustices, and which,
  because of this, should be seen reflexively and critically. The proposed argument is a theoretical
  reflection on József Böröcz’s still actual and progressive scientific endeavor to create a framework
  for the sociology of informality.