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21721-01 - Seminar: Trust in Society (3 KP)
| Semester | Frühjahrsemester 2009 |
| Angebotsmuster | unregelmässig |
| Dozierende | Till Förster (till.foerster@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | Trust has been described as the basis of social life. It is a necessity at all levels of social interaction, from the living together of a couple to the international relations that link states and entire regions of the world. Trust makes life not only easier, it makes life possible at all. We have to trust because we cannot know everything about fellow members of society. The more we know about a neighbor, a partner, a colleague, the less we need to trust but we will never be able to know everything about him or her. What we cannot know is covered by trust. In a non-normative sense, trust is then best understood as the assumption that others will act as we expect them to act. We expect our partner not to deceive us, we expect business partners to pay their invoices, we expect the fiscal office not to privilege or exempt any person from tax paying, we expect states to respect the treaties that they signed. Trust may vanish quickly if we feel betrayed, and it takes a lot to re-establish trust once it has given way to a climate of distrust. There are degrees of trust with regard to the individual, the actual lifeworld and also the historical situation of the society in which one lives. |
| Lernziele | This seminar first introduces into theories about social trust and how to apply them in the analysis of trust. It then looks at a variety of situations where trust is an important factor of social interaction. It starts at the level of partnership and kinship, then examines situations of everyday life as, for instance, trade, education, and the use we make of public space. Trust in institutions such as the police and the political order in general will then follow, and the seminar ends with trust in highly abstract norms and regulations such as money or the validity of scientific knowledge. |
| Literatur | Trudy Goiver: Social Trust. Further details will follow. |
| Weblink | http://www.unibas-ethno.ch/studium/lehrv |
| Teilnahmevoraussetzungen | Only for MA students |
| Anmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung | keine Anmeldung |
| Unterrichtssprache | Deutsch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | kein spezifischer Einsatz |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
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| Module |
Modul Fachgeschichte der Ethnologie (Master Studienfach: Ethnologie) Modul Social Anthropology (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul Theorie der Ethnologie (Master Studienfach: Ethnologie) |
| Prüfung | Lehrveranst.-begleitend |
| Hinweise zur Prüfung | Seminar papers can be written on all subjects except the first two theoretical sessions. They are due by June 15, 2009. |
| An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung | Anmelden: Belegen; Abmelden: nicht erforderlich |
| Wiederholungsprüfung | keine Wiederholungsprüfung |
| Skala | Pass / Fail |
| Belegen bei Nichtbestehen | beliebig wiederholbar |
| Zuständige Fakultät | Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Anbietende Organisationseinheit | Ethnologisches Seminar |