The Phenomenon of Trust in Domestic Scientific Discourse

Abstract

This article is devoted to the analysis of the phenomenon of trust in public scientific discourse. The authors consider various approaches to the research of the phenomenon of trust in economics, sociology, psychology and other branches of scientific knowledge. In-depth theoretical and methodological analysis of the understanding of the confidence phenomenon in the interpretation of different sociological directions is conducted. The author’s interpretation of the concept of trust from the point of view of the activity-phenomenological approach is given. The available approaches to the study of trust are systematized. In the empirical part of the research, in order to study how science responded to modern challenges related to trust in the network space in different chronological periods, the method of quantitative and qualitative content analysis was applied on the basis of scientific papers published in the period from 2000 to 2021. On the basis of the results, the authors were able to reproduce a list of 55 areas of knowledge and to derive thematic areas in which the phenomenon of trust is being studied.