Differentiating Trust in Rural Decision-making, Drawing on an English Case Study

Curry, Nigel R (2009) Differentiating Trust in Rural Decision-making, Drawing on an English Case Study. Sociologia Ruralis, 50 (2). pp. 121-138. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9523.2009.00503.x

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Abstract

Within the context of rural civic participation, three different types of trust are described, based on Simmelian-related constructs: personal trust, system trust and instrumental trust. Each has two components, a justification and a leap of faith. These vary in proportion according to degrees of knowledge held. Shifts in public domain decision-making have changed the emphasis of different types of trust. In using constructs of social capital to explore rural decision-making, bonding social capital is seen to cohere around notions of personal trust, bridging social capital around system trust and contested social capital around instrumental trust. In rural decision-making it is suggested, drawing from case study evidence in Gloucestershire, that personal trust is becoming increasingly important because of the localisation of decision-making and ambiguities in representation. A greater reliance is also being placed on system trust because of increasingly complex decision-making structures. While in principle instrumental trust can be ameliorated through access to knowledge and information, increasingly, the volume of information is problematic, and decision-makers are relinquishing their knowledge to 'experts'.

Item Type:	Article
Article Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	REF2014 Submission. SOCIAL-STRUCTURE; WHITE-PAPER; EMBEDDEDNESS; NETWORKS; POLICY; RISK; ORGANIZATIONS; PARTICIPATION; GEOGRAPHIES; STRATEGIES
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General) H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor
Divisions:	Schools and Research Institutes > Countryside and Community Research Institute
Depositing User:	Anne Pengelly
Date Deposited:	04 Apr 2014 14:11
Last Modified:	01 Aug 2021 21:27
URI:	https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/id/eprint/360

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