Academic Listening and Note-Taking

Ayana Muratbek

Academic Listening and Note-Taking

Group 24

Self-study 1

Lecture “A Question of Trust” by Nora Aniel

Glossary:

Guard – to protect

Shepherd boy – the boy that tends and guards sheep

Notes

Confucius told

Disciple Tsze-kung

Crisis of Trust

Deception and betrayal

(example, about shepherd boy)

To need trust

But: to be hard and risky

untrustworthy action

the experts of the crisis of trust

mistrust spread across

all areas of life

'Loss of trust'

live in a risk society

Sociologists suggest

there is nothing

to reduce risk

crisis of trust

attitude of suspicion

in viewing good news

for professionals,

public servants and politicians

end up viewing no news

political institutional,

professional life

can’t go well

constantly uproot them

everything is trustworthy.

Summary

The lecture was held in Royal Institution of London in 2002 by Nora Aniel. The topic was "A Question of Trust". I talks about trust in government. She begins with words of Confucius that three things are needed for government: weapons, food and trust. Then she claims about crisis of trust that because deception and betrayal, untrustworthy action of public servants and politicians it is hard and risky to believe. Moreover, she tells result polls of the experts of the crisis of trust that nowadays less trusted are journalists of the newspaper and more trusted are television news presenters. Also, she adds that sociologists suggest that there is nothing to reduce risk crisis of trust and we live in a risk society. In conlusion, she said that political institutional, professional life can’t go well if we constantly uproot them because everything is trustworthy.

Reflection and critical comments

Analyzing the whole lecture, there is one main idea which is based on lecturer’s points, examples and facts that trust is more important thing in government. The speaker could explain the main idea, give very good examples. However, she did not explain about the result polls and give strong arguments when she said that it is har and risky to trust politicians. In general, it is interesting lecture that

Reference

Aniel, N. (2002). A Question of Trust.BBC Radio 4. Retrieved from http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2002/lecture1.shtml

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