Trust (Pocket Classic)

Author: (German) Luhmann, translated by Qu Tiепeng, Li Qiang
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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 one such simplification system. Trust is a mechanism that transforms the complexity and uncertainty surrounding us into a binary: can be trusted or cannot be trusted. Currently, there is much discussion about the issue of "trust," but rarely from the perspective of structural functionalism. This masterwork on "trust" provides a solid theoretical foundation for such discussions.