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• 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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  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.

• Trust, distrust, self-trust

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  Zoltán Grünhut

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  46

  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.