Trust As Indicator of Social Consciousness in Russia

Social consciousness has always included many indicators: results of activity, needs, motives, values, interests and other indicatives. Among them the significant place takes up the trust, which always reflects one of the main forms of comprehending existing social relations, and at the same time, level of knowledge, awareness and evaluation of the ongoing changes in the socioeconomics.

Role and place of trust in this sphere were studied in process of All-Russian comparative research of 1989 and 2012. The main goal was the comparison between the situation in the last period of Soviet time, when the market relations were beginning, and situation in Russia after 25-year realization of these reforms.

Data of this study showed, that there are the different tendencies in the development of trust. In connection with the division of levels of social organizations - All-Russian, regional, enterprises and personal - the researchers tried to analyze the specific features of trust on these levels.

 This study showed that on the level of Russian society the trust to political, social, economic institutes to a great extent decreased. On the regional level the trust has the contradictory character in depending in situation in region: the reach or poor, agricultural or industrial, political activity and ethnical specifics. 

Trust in enterprises depends from the forms of property - state or private, municipal or public company.

On the personal level the trust has increased and played the leading role among the kinds of trust existed all over the places.