CMST 2H03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Houston Chronicle, Inculturation, Niklas Luhmann

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: CMST 2H03
• Professor: Flynn

Document Summary

Trust, if they do not trust you - communication is deemed ineffective. Effective communication there will be influence. All languages have a word that means the same thing. We know trust when we feel it. You walk into a store and you feel comfort to trust the scenario. Do the parties engage in trusting behaviour: i"m going to trust they won"t kick me out the house, or that they aren"t going to take my car, the partner stops trusting the behaviour of the other person. The level of the cognitive state of trust. The willingness of other agents to fulfil their contractual obligation that is crucial for cooperation (blackwell dictionary of twentieth century social thought : there is some type of agreement/contract. Trust means to hold some expectations about something future or contingent or to have some belief as to how another person will perform on some future occasion.