Well-being, Trust and Society
The concept of well-being is correlated with social indicators linked in turn with the classical notion of “the good life”. The paper, instead, emphasizes the importance of relational aspects. It develops a reflection on the dialectic of interpersonal and systemic trust and mistrust, and it analyzes...
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| description | The concept of well-being is correlated with social indicators linked in turn with the classical notion of “the good life”. The paper, instead, emphasizes the importance of relational aspects. It develops a reflection on the dialectic of interpersonal and systemic trust and mistrust, and it analyzes different semantic nuances of the notion of trust. A society characterized by well-being evidences strong type agency, a society with low levels of well being evidences weak type agency. Trust is a social resource indispensable for sustaining agency, society’s self-transformation and well-being. While trust is traditionally thought to contribute to social cohesion, mistrusting the rulers can also be considered a positive countervailing force in contemporary democracies. At the same time, the distrust sedimented in time creates, on the one hand, a saving expectation and on the other, paternalisation as a search for a substitute trust. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7de61cf3c34e4a0d9cabb19bda5b9e1c2024-03-03T02:53:33ZdeuMilano University PressLebenswelt: Aesthetics and Philosophy of Experience2240-95992019-12-011510.13130/2240-9599/12752Well-being, Trust and SocietyClaudia Gina HassanThe concept of well-being is correlated with social indicators linked in turn with the classical notion of “the good life”. The paper, instead, emphasizes the importance of relational aspects. It develops a reflection on the dialectic of interpersonal and systemic trust and mistrust, and it analyzes different semantic nuances of the notion of trust. A society characterized by well-being evidences strong type agency, a society with low levels of well being evidences weak type agency. Trust is a social resource indispensable for sustaining agency, society’s self-transformation and well-being. While trust is traditionally thought to contribute to social cohesion, mistrusting the rulers can also be considered a positive countervailing force in contemporary democracies. At the same time, the distrust sedimented in time creates, on the one hand, a saving expectation and on the other, paternalisation as a search for a substitute trust.https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/Lebenswelt/article/view/12752Trust, Mistrust, Well-being, Social Cohesion |
| spellingShingle | Claudia Gina Hassan Well-being, Trust and Society Lebenswelt: Aesthetics and Philosophy of Experience Trust, Mistrust, Well-being, Social Cohesion |
| title | Well-being, Trust and Society |
| title_full | Well-being, Trust and Society |
| title_fullStr | Well-being, Trust and Society |
| title_full_unstemmed | Well-being, Trust and Society |
| title_short | Well-being, Trust and Society |
| title_sort | well being trust and society |
| topic | Trust, Mistrust, Well-being, Social Cohesion |
| url | https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/Lebenswelt/article/view/12752 |
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