Social Philosophy In Social Capital Research

Since the 1990s, the theory of social capital is becoming a hot issue and a front problem in sociology, economics, political science and other subjects. Social capital is not only an interdisciplinary concept used by the various disciplines widely, but also a paradigm used by scholars in different countries to explain development of society, because the definition of social capital and the application of analytical framework is different, the understanding of inherent operational mechanisms of social capital and the understanding of its theoretical premise is not clear, When scholars use it to research the China's problems , it makes the research of social capital in the Chinese history not profound, the understanding of the situation of social capital in the period of transformation of society in China incomplete ,the realization of the ideal structure of modern-type of social capital in China not systematic, the choice of path in building a modern -type social capital in China unclear, and therefore there is some room in the research of the issue of China's social capital ,which need to conduct the systematic analysis and elaboration of it comprehensively from the perspective of the social philosophy of Marxism system.The paper has six chapters, which expounds the following issues on the problem of the social capital of China: the content and operational mechanism, the theoretical basis, the historical evolution of China of social capital, the ideal structure of modern-type of social capital in China, the current situation in the period of social transformation of China as wells the route of founding the modern-type social capital in China.The first chapter concentrates the content and operational mechanism of social capital. On sorting out the concepts of social capital definited by scholars at home and abroad, I put forward my definition and state its content ,which is social engagement network, trust, norms, participation and cooperation, and discuss the inherentoperational mechanism of social capital------sources and creating ,maintenance andaccumulation, weakening and vanishing from the perspective of historical materialism.The second chapter studies the theoretical basis of social capital. I hold that the theory of social capital can find its scientific and theoretical foundation only on the basis of the assumption of "social man" which Marx advanced, and the assumption of "economic man" and "cultural man" can not be the hypothesis of human nature of social capital because of their innate theoretical defect. Social capital have the essential property of capital —multiplication that Marx held , and have the different characteristics when it compares with the material capital, human capital, cultural capital and other capital forms, so the social capital may be called the capital form on a kind of metaphor meaning .The third chapter explores and analyses the historical evolution of social capital, I consider that the main types of social capital is the pattern of trust, norms, patterns of participation and cooperation which is hidden in engagement network of family and...