Study On The Rural Community Interpersonal Trust

Trust problem is an important research field in sociology. Because of the great value both in theory and in practice, the study on the rural community interpersonal trust has the special significance. On the basis of field work and by using of sociological and anthropological methods, the article demonstrates an in-depth study on the rural community interpersonal trust's present situation, influence factors, working system and tendency. By the force of relation, trust could be divided into the strong relation and the weak relation two kinds which forms the basis of the trust concentric circularity theory. In perspectives of society, community and individual, the article probes into the influence factors and constructs the analytical mode of the trust trinity theory. Although the relation is still main working system in the rural community interpersonal trust, under the influence of the social transition it also runs into corner. Therefore the institutionalized trust in a certain degree has been accepted. As a result, institution and relation has together acted on trust and will in a long period predominate the rural trust working system.