Trust rebuilding through village co-construction

Abstract

Rural construction is an important means of rural revitalization in China, and the construction of trust among multiple subjects is the key to the success. Especially in traditional villages with national protection status, the cognitive differences between individuals and the state aggravate the conflicts and trust crisis between grassroots organizations and villagers in the construction of rural housing. Simmel believes that trust is a leap of knowledge and belief under the joint action of rationality and sensibility. Many scholars have tried to analyze and deconstruct the "leap of trust" from multiple disciplines, but there are few practical cases, and the specific path with the rural background of China is not clear. The purpose of this study is to study the reconstruction of trust in village by focusing on the co-construction of villages, because the mode of co-construction of village is not only in line with traditional cultural customs, but also the main trend of promoting rural development in China. Based on the empirical investigation of rural housing construction in Tangfang Village, Yunnan Province, China, this paper studies the links among trust remodeling, university participation and multi-subject co-construction, and explores the elements and path of trust construction under the intervention of the third party of universities in rural construction. The empirical analysis points out that there are six elements of trust construction in the multi-subject co-construction of traditional village, including moral integrity, interest relationship, knowledge and technology, achievement expectation, value sharing and daily interaction, and the dynamic process of rural trust construction accompanied by multi-subjects eating, living and working together goes through four stages, namely, no trust, rational trust, experience trust and deep trust. There are two conclusions in this paper. Firstly, participating in rural construction can construct the trust relationship between university team members and villagers. Secondly, as a third-party media, universities can help to rebuild the trust relationship between villagers and grassroots organizations.