Stetsenko T. Trust as a component of social capital

The thesis is devoted to defining the specificity of trust as a component of social capital. The research reveals sociological tradition of studying trust in general and into concepts of social capital in particular. It is grounded a new conceptual vision of trust as a multidimentional phenomenon and sociological interpretation of trust and distrust. Author developed its own structural-functional model of social capital and defined the place of trust in it. Also it was clarified the role of trust in social capital converting into other capital's forms. As a result, it is proposed the system of indicators for measuring trust and other components of social capital in empirical sociological researches.