Torsello, Davide - Pappová, Melinda: Social Networks in Movement. Time, interaction and interethnic spaces in Central Eastern Europe - Nostra Tempora 8. (Somorja-Dunaszerdahely, 2003)
Time and social networks
Managing instability 83 events that the Csemadok sponsors or to one religious festival in the village to see how many people are there. There are always occasions in which old grudges are put aside. (András, b. 1930) The Corpus Christi event creates for the community an occasion in which collectively concerted action is conceived as the most significant expression of Királyfa’s self-identification. As Banfield postulates, no occasion of public action such as this religious festival should exist if villagers are dominated by a widespread sense of reciprocal mistrust. All the careful preparations and efforts put into it make the event a worthy collective asset to show off to its participants (there are no outsiders who come to assist). The festival, apart from its religious implications and the real belief that drives people to act collectively, is a moment of community identity, which is less constructed in the process of confrontation between “insiders" and “outsiders" than among villagers themselves. The difference between this and the civil event on St. Stephen’s Day is that in the former there is no clear sign of family "corporate" behaviour, i.e. people do not take part or organize the event within the close circle of their families. Their actions are rather spontaneous and coordinated through their membership in the village’s social clubs and age groups. The restraint dictated by the status of families is annulled in an event that, having a religious basis, serves to strengthen collective patterns of behaviour and prove to villagers that such patterns are factual and real even in spite of difficult times. Conclusion Trust and mistrust are useful tools for describing how people structure their actions and share their ideas about the social world. The nature of trust, which creates a tie of dependency between two parties sharing some common aim, entails both an accent on interest and instrumentality and produces a set of mutual expectations and obligations for the two sides. These are defined on the basis of collective principles and
