Trust: A Simplifying Mechanism for Social Complexity - The Century Human Culture Series

Author: Lu Man
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: In the book "Trust," the author argues that trust is a simplification mechanism. Why do human lives require these simplification mechanisms? Because the social and natural environments surrounding humans are too complex, and some simplification mechanisms must be found to correspond to them. Lu Man states that our survival requires many simplification systems. Trust is one such simplification system. Trust is a mechanism that transforms the complexity and uncertainty surrounding us into a binary: trustworthy or not trustworthy. Currently, there is much discussion about the issue of "trust," but rarely from a structural functionalist perspective. This masterwork on "trust" can lay a solid theoretical foundation for the discussion.