Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

Keywords: family, trust, democracy

In the traditional society trust used to be rooted in the family background, it formed a part of private sphere. In the opposite the modern democratic society requests from people not only trust to family member, but also another type of trust in other unknown people, as citizens and even type of impersonal trust, for example to state institutions. How are these different types of trust connected? Do they support one another or do they go against each other? Are these different types of trust rooted in the same family background? And finally, is contemporary family still the milieu in which personal trust can be created?