关键词: 社会信任, 社会风险, 知识图谱, 中国, Social trust, Social risk, Knowledge mapping, China

Abstract: After fully clarifying the logical rationale on the mutual causal association between social risk and social trust, and explaining the legitimacy of understanding the development of social trust and social risk by knowledge mapping technique in China in the recent years, we used SPSS and Ucinet to make a related Multidimensional scaling analysis and social network analysis of more than 2000 Chinese literatures in which “social risk” and/or “social trust” acting as part of the title or key words and a similar analysis for counterpart English literatures on Western countries. Through the above-mentioned comparative analysis by SPSS and Ucinet, this paper indicated what the major source, area of occurrence, and type characteristics of social risk and social trust were to the Chinese context. And this paper also demonstrated their difference between China and western developed countries. Accordingly, we pointed out that our government should give priority to the establishment of people’s confidence in the political system, to effectively resolve the continued increasing social risk issue by means of the increasing complexity of the whole social system and contribute to future long-term social harmony and stability in China.