The structure of social trust in post-industrial cities of Central and Eastern Europe
The structure of social trust in post-industrial cities of Central and Eastern Europe

Summary/Abstract: Despite numerous publications and empirical studies devoted to social trust as an abstract concept, it still arouses considerable controversy in scientific discourse. This controversy stimulates new theoretical reflection and empirical research devoted to this notion. It has also inspired this article whose main cognitive objective is to determine the structure of trust attitudes in post-industrial cities under study, i.e. to capture similar and different coincidences among the main forms of this phenomenon. The methodological objective of the article is to examine the consistencies and inconsistencies among the three basic forms of trust (generalized, horizontal and vertical) and the directions of relationships among them. Therefore, in addition to presenting the results of the level of social trust in the studied cities, an important part of this article will be capturing coincidences occurring among the three basic forms of trust, which will play an important role in future empirical research methodology. Demonstrating significant coherence of attitudes among the three mentioned forms, will provide an argument in favor of their use for designing more synthetic indexes, while the lack of such consistency would suggest some restraint in such proceedings.

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