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Charles, Sara C. & Kennedy, Eugene & Bankston, Carl L. III
gaged in Barthelme's later work, and especially in this novel, something more purposeful, something less irritating, more satisfying. It's as if, this time around, Barthelme has...
...At a time when irony has become a prevailing attitude toward social institutions, the serious concern with the bonds of authority and the bonds of trust evident in these two new books can help us think about how to rebuild the subverted foundations of our social order...
...Trust is rooted in ideas of private conscience and individual agency that developed, in the West, through the influence of Christianity...
...Adam Smith as well as Karl Marx recognized that societies based chiefly on contractual agreements among private individuals can entail a great deal of public misery...
...Carl L. Bankston III teaches in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Southeastern Louisiana...
...Seligman's effort at narrowly defining trust enables him to avoid the conceptual fuzziness of Kennedy's and Charles's discussion of authority...
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...John Jay Hughes, MO Virginia Hughes, NY _9 Jamie B. Jaffee, MA ~ Jesuit Community at Roberts House, MA _9 Richard W. Jones, NY Rev...
...Cooperation in premodern societies, he argues, is based less on trust than on secure role expectations...
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...Men and women need to reestablish this link in order to restore the health of family life...
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...Charles W. Parry, FL ~ Christian B. Peper, MO Joseph D. & Kathleen Policano, NY ~ Dennis & Leslie Purcell, NY _9 In memory of Lawrence Ragan, IL Helen M. Ranney, M.D., CA ~ Rev...
...If trust is based on modernity, what will become of it in our "postmodern" era, in which the autonomous individual is allegedly disappearing...
...Moreover, we might see trust, faith, and confidence as supporting one another in varying combinations instead of being mere external sanctions exclusive of one another...
...Still, it would be helpful to give more attention to how trust may be related to other principles for ordering human relations...
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...Thomas Kaveny, IL ~ Alice M. Kearney, NY _9 Dorothy N. Kelly, FL _9 Edward F. Kennedy, C.SS.R, John H. Kniest, Jr., VA ~ Francis W. Krastel, MD ~ Rev...
...The distinction between authority and authoritarianism may be a useful contribution to the notion of social order and this book offers many other insightful observations...
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...It still is "Perhaps the spiritual classic of our century'--America...
...The husband-and-wife team of Eugene Kennedy, a psychologist and author of numerous books on religious and social issues, and Sara C. Charles, a prominent psychiatrist, look at one element of a well-ordered society in their discussion of the concept of authority...
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...We can rediscover authority at work, they suggest, if managers will treat workers as adults and use common sense in making decisions...
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...In the civil society, negotiation and contract between private individuals, based on the internal promptings of conscience, became social bonds...
...Kennedy and Charles and Seligman would have done well to have taken into consideration one of Dennis Wrong's key insights: all explanations of social order presuppose some theory of human nature and human motivation...
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...We can only trust other humans, that is, to the extent that we do not know just what they will do...
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...He's not standing on the sidelines, amused and ironic, anymore...
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...It's as if, this time around, Barthelme has accompanied Ray on his scary, funny, crucial journey...
...WHOM DO WE TRUST...
...Kennedy and Charles describe what they call the "de-authorization" of various American institutions: marriage and family, education, the workplace and the professions, government, business, religion, and law...
...Seligman seeks to explain precisely what trust is and how trust is developed...
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...Irving F. (Eulah) Laucks, CA _9 Patricia MacManus, NY Barbara A. McCafferty, M.D., PA ~ Gale & Angela Metzger, NJ _9 Daniel P. O'Connell, CT ~ Doris C. O'Neil, CT Paul C. Saunders, NY ~ Valerie C. Scanlon, NY ~ Rev...
...Carl L. Bankston I I I alcott Parsons, the grand theorist of American sociology from the thirties through the fifties, described maintaining order as a central problem of any social system...
...Frederick R. McManus, DC _9 Rev...
...He argues that the traditional realm of the morally autonomous individual is shrinking as group identities, expressed through contemporary identity politics, and external controls, such as laws, govern increasing areas of our civic lives...
...Huelskamp, WI ~ Rev...
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...Adam Seligman, a professor in the Department of Religion at Boston University, analyzes another element of a wellordered society: trust...
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...Valerie Sayers is professor of English at the University of Notre Dame...
...He carefully distinguishes trust from confidence and faith...
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...Robert J. Kruse, C.S.C., MA ~ Neal & Anne Laurance, MI Paul A. Lockrey, NJ ~ Most Rev...
...Authoritarianism, in their view, involves conformity imposed from above by hierarchies...
...Recent publications, such as Dennis Wrong's masterly The Problem of Order (Basic Books, 1994), suggest that attention is turning once again, however, to how a well-ordered society is established and maintained...
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...The book's recommendations for solving problems often seem like the type of nostrums peddled by management consultants ThepAPACY and thepEOPLE of GOD Gary MacEoin, editor Ten of the world's leading theo-logians and Vatican watchers explore a range of issues including infallibility, the magisterium, papal elections, the place of women, the relationship of the papacy to an indigenous church, and the role of the papacy in an ecumenical church...
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...The Problem of Trust is a demanding, closely reasoned, scholarly work, and I would not recommend it for killing time while waiting for the bus...
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...It is well worth the time of patient, attentive readers, though, since "trust" has become a major topic in contemporary literature on social order, a central concern of writers such as Francis Fukuyama and Niklas Luhmann...
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...Authority, by contrast, involves the agency of an author, someone who promotes growth by giving meaning and shape to human relationships...
...Paul Misner, WI ~ Mrs...
...We have confidence in others when their social roles are so well-established that we can predict their behavior...
...Victor (Sophie B.) Angelescu, MI _9 Anonymous, CA ~ Joseph C. Barbaccia, M.D., CA Rev...
...Margaret S. Goheen, NJ ~ George W. Grayson, VA ~ William & Eileen Hallissey, NJ Rev...
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...If trust has been the guiding principle of the modern market society, then perhaps it needs to be supplemented by other principles...
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...Still, Kennedy and Charles never manage to say precisely what authority is, aside from describing it as "a positive, dynamic force ordered to growth...
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...Seligman is decidedly pessimistic about the future of trust...
...Trust, says Seligman, is a secular phenomenon that has emerged at the margins of systematic role expectations...
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...William Davidson, MI ~ Maura Faherty Memorial Fund, MA In memory of James G. Good, NY _9 John & Miriam Hunt, NJ ~ Rev...
...John A. Coleman, S.J., CA ~ John M. Corcoran, MA ~ Miriam & Tom Curnin, NY Edward M. Davin, VA _9 Edmund T. Delaney, CT ~ A. W. Dickinson, MA ~ Bernard J. Dobbins, CA William C. & Linda Dowling, NJ ~ Rev...
...W. F. (Mary W.) Lavin, DE _9 John Leo, NY _9 John G. McKevitt, PA Rev...
...collaborative approach...
...Faith, at the other extreme from cooperation, is a relationship with an unknowable transcendent other, God...
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...Americans misunderstand and misinterpret authority because they confuse it with authoritarianism, which has become unacceptable in today's posthierarchical world...
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...Authority, they argue, should be clearly distinguished from authoritarianism...
...Put simply, what are people trying to get out of their jobs and marriages that may lead them to invest these institutions with authority and what are they trying to get out of one another that makes it worth the trouble and risk of trust...
...Joseph Carroll, S.J., CA ~ Edward J. Carville, CA _9 Alfred Cavanaugh, CA Blanche Childs, IL _9 Rev...
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...It only began to be a dominant form of social organization, though, with the emergence of the idea of a civil society in the early eighteenth century...
...Order can be oppressive as well as functional, though, and social thinkers for the past twenty to thirty years have tended to be more concerned with issues of personal liberation and distributive justice than with questions of cooperation and collective efficiency...
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...Such bland moral exhortations, I believe, trivialize the difficulties social change presents to American institutions...
...William B. Neenan, S.J., MA ~ Paul Neff, IL ~ William P. Neis, WI ~ Kevin T. O'Brien, NJ ~ Elizabeth Oakes, CA Rev...
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...Daniel J. McCarty, WI ~ William H. McCaslin, NY Rev...
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...In Seligman's view, trust as a principle for the organization of social life is a modern development...
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...Similarly, the uncertainty of relations among people can be limited by a common basis in religious faith...
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...One point that remains unclear in these two books is why people seek to establish varying types of social ties at different historical times and in different places...
...We can only identify the situations that promote bonds of authority or bonds of trust among individuals if we first have an idea of what leads people to seek bonds with one another...
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...For example, they argue that breaking the link between marriage and sex has resulted in a loss of the authority of marriage...
...Some degree of confidence in the socially defined roles of others, for example, may make it worth the risk of extending trust...
...Raymond A. Lucker, MN _9 Thomas F. Mader, Tokyo ~ John J. Mahoney, CA Rev...
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...Edward A. Malloy, C.S.C., IN ~ Stephen Manning, KY _9 Edward F. Mannion, PA ~ Edward Marciniak, IL Angela M. Mathews, NY ~ Alice E. Mayhew, NY ~ Dr...
...After examining these institutions, they offer suggestions for rediscovering authority in each...
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...As a result, the concept remains vague and the term "deauthorization" tends to be used as a magic key that unlocks the secret of every current social problem...
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...Since human beings achieve their goals by working together, there must be forces that hold them together and direct their efforts toward common purposes...
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Vol. 125 • February 1998 • No. 3
