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A Study On The Influence Of Countryside Senior Citizens' Social Capital To The Quality Of Life In Impoverished Area

Posted on:2008-05-30Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:P WeiFull Text:PDF
GTID:1116360212991425Subject:Demography
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The social capital and the quality of life both are the concepts with extremely rich connotation, so far, the academic circles has not still reached the consensus of opinion to these two concepts concrete limits. But had a more unified understanding to these two concepts basic meaning. The basic meaning of social capital is refers to the individual or the community in some sharing culture, the custom and under the behavior standards background, forms through the participation society interaction is advantageous to enhances the individual and the community absorbs the useful resources the ability, simultaneously also promotes the community interior uniformity motion, as well as the enhancement community, local or the national cohesive force society relates the resources. The quality of life refers the environment provides for the people the living condition adequacy as well as the people lives the demand satisfied degree, is above the certain material base, the members of different social classes to each kind of environment feeling and the appraisal which own and its own locates.Regarding the countryside senior citizen, its quality of life besides individual resources which belongs to the senior citizen, including goods and monetary fund property rights direct correlation, but also including social resources which can obtain with the senior citizen, which the senior citizen obtains from the country, the society and the family, the neighborhood, the community and so on, each economical and non-economical support (for example family members' support and help, neighborhoods' help and relatives temporary relief and so on) are connected. These social resources which provide by the unofficial department is helpful to improves senior citizen's quality of life, for whom lacking safeguard system support impoverished countryside community is in particular so. Looked from the social security angle, It is specially don't have security system support from national and society's official social general countryside's area at present. Senior citizen's life is more relies on the unofficial society relates the network support. Moreover, along with the senior citizen have no ability to work, including human's capital, the physical strength, knowledge and technology gradually drops and loses, their economical capital also assumes the obvious drop tendency. Thus, the countryside senior citizen unceasingly will strengthen to the social capital dependence. Therefore, discusses the impoverished local countryside senior citizen from the theory and the practice through each kind of social relations and the member status gain subsistence means, inspects the countryside senior citizen's social capital condition from the interpersonal relationship network angle, may cause the society which provides in view of the senior citizen to assist has pointed, cares for the aged and the safeguard system regarding the establishment reasonable countryside to have the important reference value, to improves the countryside senior citizen's quality of life to have the important theory value and the practical significance.This article elaborated the concept of social capital and the quality of life, the theory development and the measuring technique foundation. The author constructed the research frame of the countryside senior citizens' social capital and the quality of life and explored diligently the influence condition of countryside senior citizens' social capital to the quality of life. The author found that there is absent systemic study on the influences of rural senior citizens' social capital to quality of life at home through cleaning up anteceded research. According to different research object, social capital can divided to three analytical levels: micro-, meso- and macro-social capital. This paper pays more attention to the microcosmic social capital of rural senior citizens and the influences to their own quality of life. The author had ever two times to enter the impoverished countryside and organized two investigations about the condition of rural senior citizens' social capital and quality of life between from April to August in 2006, in Huang guo shu community in GuiZhou province. We took three questionnaires enter the old people's home to ask about their own social capital and quality of life. The first questionnaire is about rural senior citizens' individual social capital and quality of life. We obtain 290 useful questionnaires. The second one is about the network of rural old people's social intercourse. We took a village for study case and investigate all people with 60 or above 60 years old about the status of their social intercourse. The third one is about village community social capital and quality of life. We gained the information from 386 old persons. The author analyses the information thorough with quantitative and qualitative technique together. Inspecting the countryside senior citizen's individual social capital, the family generation of border relations structure and the village community network architecture middle-aged person's and old person's social capital and in the village region community social capital condition, as well as what influent countryside aged life quantity. The innovations of paper are (1) investigated simultaneously the influence of quantity, quality and structure of social capital and (2) analysed the limit of structure of social network and (3) took village as an entity to measured the village' socialcapital to senior citizens' quality of life.Finally draws the conclusions: (1) In individual social capital quantity, senior citizen's network population scale and the relational scale is not all big. Senior citizen's individual social capital quality aspect, network density bigger, the homogeneity is higher. In individual social capital structure, the son occupies the very great proportion, the senior citizens highly relies on son's support. But in the network scale to quality of life influence discussion, the network relations scale is bigger than the relational scale to the quality of life influence. In each kind of role relations to the senior citizen quality of life influence inspections, the son is most intense to the senior citizens' quality of life influence. (2)Because in the modern countryside family generation of border relations structure generation of border authority evolves, has caused senior citizens' in family status drop. At the same time, the children go out to work reduce the family and the local outside society's interaction, thus reduced senior citizen's social capital. From village overall society network angle of view analysis, between senior citizen's contact less, has more isolated individuals, thus community network intermediary and so on are higher, explained differences between the senior citizen participates in the aspect society are quite big, the minority senior citizen palm controls the resources superiority, the most senior citizens' quality of life is not certainly high. (3) The village took with a whole, its community social capital is lower. Manifests between villagers' trust, the unity level is not high, the village cohesive force worse, the village collective action ability weaker as well as the villagers are insufficient and so on .The aspect to the common interest care. But between senior citizen's years of schooling, villagers' reciprocal benefit condition and the senior citizen participate in the village activity the condition to have the statistical influence to senior citizen's quality of life. Its reason lies in, in the village not the exclusive senior citizen's independent active place and lacks a senior citizen association kind of organization, has limited senior citizen's mutual contact, limited them to participate in the village activity, thus caused the senior citizen the quality of life not to be high.The conclusion of this article is established in the document material of real diagnosis research foundation, our country is vast in territory, in each place, social economy culturing condition existence differently, even if the investigation and study which carries on in the identical community, also can present the different result as a result of the time in difference. This article conclusion only lies in showed this time the countryside senior citizens' social capital condition and the influence of their quality of life, certainly does not have the transplant significance, this is the limit of case study.
Keywords/Search Tags:Impoverished Local, Hang guo shu Community, Countryside, Senior Citizen, Social Capital, Quality of Life
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