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The subject of this article is analysis of dependences between social capital and trust in public authority subjects. Social trust means generalized trust directed to others. Trust is the crucial factor of social capital, which may be defined as potential of social participation and co-operation existing in particular community, based on shared values, norms and mutual trust. In consequence the high trust co-operation of group members is easier. The article presents factors that build high trust in public authority subjects. The article shows trust as the basic of cooperation in community and as key element of social capital.
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Social trust (understood as a belief that most unknown people are fair, helpful and trustworthy) is an important correlate or a part of social capital which, in turn, contributes to social and economical development of societies. In the present work indices of social trust in 24 EU countries gathered in the European Social Survey in 2004/2005 were studied. The analyses indicated that the seven countries which had experienced communism showed much lower level of trust than the 17 countries without this experience. Two explanations of the relation between experience of communism and lowered trust were proposed and tested. The first was a cultural one in terms of diminished individualism and the second was an economical one in terms of lowered economical prosperity of societies which had suffered from communism. Although post-communist countries showed both lowered GDP and the individualism level, mediation analyses showed that only the lowered level of economical prosperity accounted for the lowered trust in those countries.
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A stable and strong correlation between economic indicators and social trust is well-documented. Our analysis confirmed that 3 indicators of Group A together are significant predictors of trust for people with GINI as significant single predictor. The complex indicators addition into the group of predictors increased powerfully the explanatory power of MODEL 2 and in this constellation the CPI manifested as the most effective predictor. The addition of four ESS indicators in this case did not change the situation dramatically and in this case the CPI manifested itself as the most powerful predictor. The general idea that there is a connection between “simple” indicators of national economic performance and trust towards political institutions in ESS data (Round 1-3) was tested already. Historically the main focus in research was oriented towards the question of internal validity. In the context of the survey research data the usual expectation is that well known disadvantages of this kind of data could be compensated by their external validity. In the ESS the highest attention is paid to the questions of methodological rigor, and in this sense also to the validity of collected data. The results of our analyses confirmed that there exists a serious connection between ESS data and different social indicators not only “inside” but also “outside” the survey.
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This paper presents empirical evidence suggestive of the existence of a mutually reinforcing relationship between social capital and trust. Using cross-sectional data from the Polish General Social Survey 2002, as well as longitudinal data from the Social Diagnosis 2000-2007, it was shown that individuals re-create their patterns of social ties through their norms of trust. People who formed ties solely with their kin were convinced that they can trust only a few people in the world while those with both kin and non-kin mem- bers in their social networks were more inclined to believe in the benign naturę of humanity. These results, derived from cross-sectional data, are confirmed by the panel dataset which we use also for proving the converse hypothesis: people with higher levels of trust are more likely to form social ties with the non-kin. These findings are especially pertinent to Poland, a post-communist country seeking to build a civil society - social networks based on kin members combined with Iow levels of generał social trust can be a major obstacle in developing a civil society here.
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AEssentially, this article is to test social trust in three dimensions: vertical (trust enjoyed by various types of institutions) and two horizontal - private and generalized. The main purpose of the article is, however, to find an answer to the question about the level of social trust of the adult residents of rural communes of the Lódz region. The analysis is designed to diagnose social trust of the surveyed communities and to determine the correlates of the third of the above mentioned types of trust, defined as generalized trust manifested in contacts with other people.
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The article discusses the problem of the doctor-patient privilege in the work of the family psychologist. A considerable number of psychological studies, also ones conducted by the author of the present article, clearly indicate that confidentiality is the most often occurring problem in the psychologist's professional work, as well as the one that is the most difficult to solve. It seems that for a psychologist, especially a family psychologist, not only constant work on raising professional qualifications, but work on formation of one's own moral level is important. In the first part the very concept of secrecy is subjected to an academic reflection; first in the aspect of the definition, and then with respect to the range and specificity of the privilege. The second part of the article is concerned with the doctor-patient privilege of the family psychologist in two aspects. The first one is defining and presenting the fundamental properties of the family system, and the second one is analysis of the specificity of the work of the family psychologist in the context of the doctor-patient privilege.
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The article presents considerations regarding the role that the owners of “small agricultural farms” and the members of their families play in rural communities. The author takes up the question of the need to precisely define the category of agricultural farms referred to as “small” or as “small producers” and analyzes opinions formulated by representatives of various branches of science on the present and future role of such farms. The main subject of the article is the condition of social capital in the rural areas of Poland, the capital's inclusive or exclusive character, and clearly observable changes that have occurred in the recent years, especially in the attitudes of farmers after the accession of Poland to EU. Basing on the results of a poll conducted by CBOS in 2007 the author formulates a negative answer to the question whether small farms, or more precisely the owners of small farms, constitute a group that distinctly differs in some way from other groups, for example, from the group of farmers who are large producers. In the light of conducted research persons linked to small farms co-create social capital in the same measure as all the remaining farmers and inhabitants of rural areas.
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