Pocket Classic · Trust

Author: [German] Niklas Luhmann
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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. Luhmann states that our survival requires many simplification systems. Trust is also such a simplification system. Trust is a binary that transforms the complexity and uncertainty surrounding us into: can be trusted or cannot be trusted. Currently, there is much discussion about the issue of "trust," but few explore it from the perspective of structural functionalism. This masterwork on "trust" provides a solid theoretical foundation for the discussion.