Trust as a basic principle of inclusive economy: analysis of conceptual and methodological approaches

The article reveals theoretical approaches to the understanding of the inclusive economy as one of the possible vectors of social transformation. The goal is to determine the role of trust in the inclusive economy, ways to analyze it from a sociological point of view. The research methodology is based on a synthesis of approaches to the inclusive economy and an analysis of methods for studying trust. The conclusion is made about the high importance of an inclusive economy for the welfare of society. This is achieved by reducing inequality and integrating socially vulnerable groups. At the same time, trust is seen as a basic principle for the functioning of this model, because the barriers to inclusion are associated with its deficit, such as stigmatization. An analysis of the methodologies for studying trust shows a wide measuring potential in describing its interrelationship with economic and political trends. Nevertheless, there is a limitation in analyzing the social mechanisms of confidence formation. The activity-phenomenological approach is offered as an alternative methodological tool. The practical significance of the study lies in the fact that the study creates the prerequisites for the development of sociological methods for analyzing trust in the economy.