The phenomenon of trust in social management: a theoretical aspect

The paper examines the approaches and interpretations of the theoretical provisions of the category ‘trust’ in social management. On the basis of statistical data, an analysis of the problem of trust in Russian society is carried out, and the mechanisms of its formation at the institutional (macro) level are proposed. The research emphasizes the logic of the development of this definition within the framework of various paradigms: from the classical one, which assumes following formal signs of trust within the hierarchy and functionality of the social management system itself, to the formation of trust in postclassical paradigms, where it arises due to subject-subject nonlinear and informal interaction regulating elements of the management system. The mechanisms of trust formation are social-technological procedures of public interactions, including network communications between various subjects, regardless of their authority and hierarchy in the subordination system.