TRUST AS A PREREQUISITE FOR BUILDING A KNOWLEDGE-BASED SOCIETY

• Authors: Ostrovska Ilze
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Author: Ostrovska, I. Title: Source: Humanities and Social Sciences: Latvia (subtitle of issue: Latvia towards knowledge-based society: social and economic aspects), Volume 17, Issue 2 (Summer 2009), pages: 192-207 Keywords: Discipline: POLITICAL SCIENCES Language: ENGLISH Document type: ARTICLE Publication order reference: Abstract: The report by the European Commission's group of experts contains an appeal to take a knowledge-based society seriously; that might imply that such a society should be politicised. In other words, if a knowledge-based society gains the authority of a country's institutional component, it has to fulfil the following three essential requirements – reporting, representation and trust. In the context of developing a knowledge-based society, this article analyses trust in research and in those who report its results, namely, experts. It also analyses the causes of alienation and its manifestation as an integral part of society's political trust. The article analyses factors which determine the development of trust in societies in which consolidation of democracy is in the initial stage. On the basis of theoretical statements regarding strategic and moral trust, the role of general and particular trust in society's development, as well as the results of an opinion poll, the article explains the influence of trust on developing a knowledge-based society in Latvia.

Keywords

EN

GENERAL TRUST; KNOWLEDGE-BASED SOCIETY; MORAL TRUST.; PARTICULAR TRUST POLITICAL TRUST; STRATEGIC TRUST

Discipline

• POLITICAL_SCIENCES: POLITICAL SCIENCES

• Publisher: EPC Ltd (Economic Prognosis Centre), Riga, Latvia (till March 2009 - Institute of Economics, Latvian Academy of Sciences, Ltd)
• Journal: Humanities and Social Sciences: Latvia
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 17
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 192-207
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Ostrovska Ilze

• Ilze Ostrovska, Baltic International Academy, Lomonosova iela 4, Riga, LV-1003, Latvia; www.hssl.lv.

Identifiers

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09LVAAAA057512