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dc.contributor.authorGontcharov, Igor.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2009-05-15T18:07:50Z
dc.date.available2009-05-15T18:07:50Z
dc.date.issued2002-05-15T18:07:50Z
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10464/1152
dc.description.abstractThe paper concentrates on trust as a research topic that receives increasing attention from the side of different social disciplines. The author of this thesis attempts to identify the reasons of this phenomenon, as well as the decline in usage of the concepts conveying a congenial idea, such as, solidarity, cooperation, social cohesion, social capital or connectedness. The key hypotheses, such as paradigmatic change within the social sciences, emergence of risk society, proliferation of the postmodem condition, new infonnation and communication technologies and the crisis of democracy are considered through the works of the authors who now mainly responsible for the shaping of the discourse of trust. The concepts of Luhmann, Putnam, Sztompka, Fukuyama and Hardin are analyzed from an epistemological viewpoint in its ontological and political implications. The primary goal of the paper is to overview trust from the methodological viewpoint, illustrating the limitations of the concept as a research strategy as weII as it advantages in the epoch when the social sciences acquire a status of moral disciplines.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherBrock Universityen_US
dc.subjectTrusten_US
dc.subjectSocial Sciencesen_US
dc.titleIn distrust we trust : analysis of academic apocalypseen_US
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertationen
dc.degree.nameM.A. Political Scienceen_US
dc.degree.levelMastersen_US
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Political Scienceen_US
dc.degree.disciplineFaculty of Social Sciencesen_US
refterms.dateFOA2021-07-16T10:40:32Z


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