Pub Date : 2021-08-06DOI: 10.4337/9781839104855.00018
O. Kangas, Minna Ylikännö, Mikko S. Niemelä
Had John Lennon and Paul McCartney been sociologists, the title of their most famous and most referenced article might have been ‘All You Need Is Trust’. Indeed, trust is something we need in everyday life. We could not interact with others in any positive or productive manner if we did not trust them; similarly, without trust, we could not properly interact with public institutions and authorities. Mutual trust is a prerequisite for any sustainable social organization. Societies with low levels of generalised trust in fellow citizens and institutions inevitably struggle with political instability and corruption; hence, when reforming social institutions and experimenting with new social policy models, the emphasis should be placed on how to increase and maintain trust and, in a Putnamian sense, get people ‘to bowl together’ (Putnam, 2000). The academic literature has typically separated trust into two distinct forms: trust in one’s fellow citizens, also called generalised trust, and trust in institutions. Whether people trust institutions, or other people for that matter, has an effect on the functioning of society (Fukuyama, 1995, 2011; Stiglitz et al., 2018); thus, the importance of trust should not be ignored when assessing the functioning of existing national institutions or the pursuit of new policies. According to the Cambridge Dictionary, ‘trust’ is the belief that the other person is good and honest and will not cause harm, or that something is safe and reliable, while ‘confidence’ refers to the quality of being certain of one’s own abilities and plans for the future. For the purposes of our analysis, we define confidence as one’s reliance on oneself and one’s perceived ability to cope, meet future challenges, and be an influential actor in one’s own life. Even in the scientific literature, the concepts of trust and confidence are frequently used interchangeably. However, from a sociological perspective, it is useful to distinguish between the two. While they are interwoven and
如果约翰·列侬和保罗·麦卡特尼是社会学家,那么他们最著名、被引用最多的文章的标题可能就是《你所需要的就是信任》。的确,信任是我们日常生活中所需要的东西。如果我们不信任他人,我们就无法以任何积极或富有成效的方式与他人互动;同样,没有信任,我们就无法与公共机构和当局进行适当的互动。相互信任是任何可持续社会组织的先决条件。对同胞和机构的普遍信任度较低的社会,不可避免地要与政治不稳定和腐败作斗争;因此,在改革社会制度和试验新的社会政策模式时,重点应该放在如何增加和保持信任上,在普特南的意义上,让人们“一起打保龄球”(普特南,2000)。学术文献通常将信任分为两种不同的形式:对同胞的信任,也称为广义信任,以及对机构的信任。人们是否信任机构或其他人,对社会的运作有影响(Fukuyama, 1995,2011;Stiglitz et al., 2018);因此,在评估现有国家机构的运作或推行新政策时,不应忽视信任的重要性。根据《剑桥词典》的解释,“信任”是指相信对方是善良、诚实的,不会造成伤害,或者某物是安全可靠的,而“信心”是指对自己的能力和未来的计划充满信心的品质。为了分析的目的,我们将自信定义为一个人对自己的依赖,以及一个人应对、迎接未来挑战的能力,以及在自己的生活中成为一个有影响力的演员的能力。即使在科学文献中,信任和信心的概念也经常互换使用。然而,从社会学的角度来看,区分这两者是有用的。当它们交织在一起
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Pub Date : 2021-08-06DOI: 10.4337/9781839104855.00016
M. Lassander, Signe Jauhiainen
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Pub Date : 2021-08-06DOI: 10.4337/9781839104855.00009
O. Kangas, Signe Jauhiainen, Miska Simanainen, Minna Ylikännö
This book provides a broad picture of the Finnish basic income experiment – from the planning, through the implementation, and ending with an evaluation of the experiment – in a versatile collection of studies. The editors, together with the rest of the research group, have had the most interesting couple of years evaluating the Finnish basic income experiment. In fact, some of us have spent even more time with the experiment, by being involved in the planning phase. This has been quite a journey. to fruitful passionate
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