While trust is seen as central to most social relations, most writers, including sociologists of science, assume that modern trust relations--especially those in regulatory relationships - tend towards the impersonal. Drawing on ethnographic material from one kind of scientific oversight body--research ethics committees based in the UK NHS--this paper argues that interpersonal trust is crucial ...

This article aims at contributing to the understanding of the trust–control nexus. The objective is to bring the discussion around the relationship between both concepts a step further by identifying common foundations, distinctive mechanisms and key implications relevant for theorybuilding and empirical research on trust and control. First, the concept of trust and related concepts are introdu...

Background: Social capital is an important interpersonal organizational resource that may affect health behaviors and seems to be an important factor in chronic diseases. Considering the lack of evidence on this topic, in the present study, we aimed at investigating the association between components of social capital, socioeconomic condition, and controlling Type 2 diabetes mellitus in Iran. ...

Abstract Although the social capital, in terms of stronger interpersonal relationships between group borrowers, has been found to exert a positive impact on loan repayment, there is no existing research that endeavored study influence relationship quality individual borrowers repayment. Therefore, this seeks understand and its dimensions repayment using data gathered from survey 450 joint liabi...

We examined the relationship between psychopathology and interpersonal problems in a sample of 825 clinical and community participants. Sixteen psychiatric diagnoses and five transdiagnostic dimensions were examined in relation to self-reported interpersonal problems. The structural summary method was used with the Inventory of Interpersonal Problems Circumplex Scales to examine interpersonal p...

This study was aimed to present a model for social responsibility of audit firms using the grounded theory method. To this end, the components and dimensions of social responsibility model of audit firms were identified and explained. The research method was applied in terms of purpose, mixed (qualitative-quantitative)exploratoryin termsof datatype, anddescriptive-correlationalinterms of data c...