信任：当代经济社会学研究的新视野

20世纪70年代以来,作为对"经济学帝国主义"入侵的一种回应,信任问题逐渐成为西方经济社会学研究的一个热点。西方经济社会学家,或者在批判新古典经济学的理论和方法的基础上,或者直接借鉴新古典经济学的理论和方法,从社会资本的角度切入,把信任作为一种社会资本的特定形式,通过研究信任与经济秩序、经济交易及其成本、经济效率和效益、经济繁荣和发展之间的关系,来阐明信任这种社会资本在经济生活中的作用。西方经济社会学家对于信任问题的研究及其所取得的成果,不仅为经济社会学在当代的研究和发展开阔了新视野,展示了新空间,而且对于中国社会主义市场经济建设具有重大的现实指导意义。

Trust:A New Visual Field of Research in Contemporary Economic Sociology

Since 1970's ,as a kind of response to the inbreak of "economic imperialism",the problem of trust has been becoming a hotspot in the research of the westerneconomic sociology gradually. Western economic sociologist , based on criticizing thetheories and methods of the New Classical Economics, or using for reference thetheories and methods of the New Classical Economics directly from the social capitalangle, taking trust as a kind of particular form of social capfial, clarifying the function oftrust as a kind of social capital in economic life, through researching the relations of trustand economic order, economic exchange and its cost, economic efficiency and benefit,economic prosper and development. Western economic sociologist's researches and itsfruits which have been obtained about trust not only open out a new visual field anddisplay a new space for the contemporary research and development of economicsociology ,but also have the important practical guide's signification to today's Chinesesocialist market economy construction