『「信頼」研究をめぐる国際会議／International Conference on Trust』開催のお知らせ（中央大学社会科学研究所/Institute of Social Sciences, Chuo University）

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Institute of Social Sciences
Chuo University
November 18-20, 2017

 

No one denies the importance of trust in social relationships.  Many scholars view trust as extraordinarily important because of its influence on interpersonal and group relationships.  Our economic system is in many ways entirely dependent upon trust because if there were no trust there would be no economic transactions.  Thus trust has profound implications for interpersonal and social cooperation.  Without trust, societies really could not exist.  As we all know, social systems are becoming increasingly complex and confounded, meaning that trust plays an ever-increasingly important role.  Trust in interpersonal and social cooperation implies commitment, which is intimately tied to obligation, which brings into play basic norms and values at individual and group levels.  Norms and values speak to expectations.  Expectations are implicit in trust because past and present individual and social behaviors dictate how future actions will unfold.  Trust becomes a coping mechanism for societal complexity as it helps to overcome the accompanying uncertainty characteristic of a mushrooming globalized social system.  

The purpose of the Conference is to present current research results, discuss and exchange ideas by meeting together in one place during the most pleasant of Japan’s seasons.

The Conference will consist of morning plenary sessions and three afternoon sessions on sociology (including socio-psychology), economics, political science, and organizational research fields.

So far, we have almost one hundred presentations and one hundred thirty registrations from thirty two nations.

 

■Confirmed keynote speakers include:

Trust as a Fundamental Mechanism to Co-ordinate Social Interaction

　Prof. Reinhard Bachmann, BA, MSc, PhD

　Head of School of Finance and Management &

　Director of the 'Centre for Trust Research' (CTR)

　SOAS, University of London, UK

Family Socialization, Trust and Change: Evidence from Russia

　Prof. Donna Bahry, Department of Political Science

　The Pennsylvania State University, U.S.A.

　and

　Prof. Polina Kozyreva

　Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences, and

　National Research University -Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia

The Experience of “Trust”: Its Basis and Context

　Prof. Jack Barbalet

　The Institute for Religion, Politics and Society

　The Australian Catholic University in Melbourne, Australia

 Interpersonal Distrust: A Dynamic Approach

　Dr. Katinka Bijlsma-Frankema

   Senior Researcher

   Faculty of Economics and Business

　University of Groningen

　The Netherlands

Socio-economic Modernization and Trust: The Case of China

　Prof. Dr. Jan Delhey
　Department of Sociology/Macrosociology
　Otto von Guericke University
　Magdeburg, Germany

Trust and Confidentiality: Secrecy as Trust‐Building Device in Industrial

Relations

　Prof. Morten Frederiksen and Uffe Kjærgaard Hansen

　Department of Sociology and Social Work

　Aalborg University, Denmark

Constitution of Inter-Organizational Trust – The Role of Self-Reinforcing Processes

　Prof. Dr. Guido Möllering
　Director and Chair of Management
　Reinhard Mohn Institute of Management
　Private Universität Witten/Herdecke, Gemany

　and

　Prof. Dr. Jorg Sydow

　Department of Management

　Freie Universitat Berlin, Gemany

Radical Uncertainty and the Economic Need for Trust

　Emeritus Prof. Bart Nooteboom

　Faculty of Economics and Business Administrtion

　Tillburg University, The Netherlands

The Relation Between Interpersonal Trust and Adjustment

　Prof. Ken J. Rotenberg, School of Psychology, Keele University, UK 

Trust, Civic Participation and Legitimacy of Democracy in the Czech Republic in the Transition Period after 1989

　Prof. Markéta Sedláčková, Jiří Šafr

　Dept. of Sociology, Charles University, Prague

　Czech Republic

Trust in the Moral Space

　Emeritus Prof. dr hab. Piotr Sztompka

　Institute of Sociology

　Jagiellonian University

　Krakow. Poland

　Past President of International Sociological Association (ISA)

The New Aspects of Public Trust

　Prof. Zhan Toshchenko, The Russian State University for the Humanities

　and the RAS Institute of Sociology, Moscow. Russia

 

  ※ The registration deadline for overseas researchers is over.  

 

■Please contact:

Masamichi Sasaki, the organizer of the Conference, should you have any inquiries or questions.masasaki@tamacc.chuo-u.ac.jp