Social beings and social actions: Examining Garfinkel's notion of trust
Jarske, Salla (2016)
2016
Yhteiskuntatutkimuksen tutkinto-ohjelma - Degree Programme in Social Sciences
Yhteiskunta- ja kulttuuritieteiden yksikkö - School of Social Sciences and Humanities
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2016-12-13
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:uta-201612162858
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:uta-201612162858
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This master's thesis examines the notion of trust presented by Harold Garfinkel in his 1963 article called A Conception of, and Experiments with, Trust as a Condition of Stable Concerted Actions . The concept is defined as persons compliance to a constitutive order of events which constitutes the everyday world as a social reality. Trust features into the production of mutually intelligible actions that accomplish intersubjectivity.
Garfinkel's 1963 article presents games as examples where trust and the constitutive order of events can be discovered, and proceeds to examine trust as a condition of concerted actions in daily life. The Trust article builds on Alfred Schutz's earlier work, and presents some of Garfinkel's earliest breaching experiments.
This thesis examines the significance of Garfinkel's notion of trust in terms of the production of joint actions and intersubjectivity. Trust specifies how individuals participate in the constitution of the social world by producing actions that can be seen as belonging to an assumed normative order of events. In order to broaden the understanding of the underlying features of joint activities, some recent theoretical notions in evolutionary anthropology concerning shared intentionality will be discussed.
The thesis concludes that trust is an important concept in the sense that it unites individuals to the social through action. Trust recognizes that joint activities are based on individual's participation in the social world as morality, and transforms individual actions into vehicles of social meaning. This enables a continuous process in which the social world is maintained.
Garfinkel's 1963 article presents games as examples where trust and the constitutive order of events can be discovered, and proceeds to examine trust as a condition of concerted actions in daily life. The Trust article builds on Alfred Schutz's earlier work, and presents some of Garfinkel's earliest breaching experiments.
This thesis examines the significance of Garfinkel's notion of trust in terms of the production of joint actions and intersubjectivity. Trust specifies how individuals participate in the constitution of the social world by producing actions that can be seen as belonging to an assumed normative order of events. In order to broaden the understanding of the underlying features of joint activities, some recent theoretical notions in evolutionary anthropology concerning shared intentionality will be discussed.
The thesis concludes that trust is an important concept in the sense that it unites individuals to the social through action. Trust recognizes that joint activities are based on individual's participation in the social world as morality, and transforms individual actions into vehicles of social meaning. This enables a continuous process in which the social world is maintained.