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The Interaction Of Social Capital Conversion And Community Building: China's Experience

Posted on:2010-09-06Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:W T XueFull Text:PDF
GTID:1117360278971582Subject:Political Theory
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This paper tries to find out the inner connection between community space, organization, culture in community building and social network, trust, norms of social capital, by analyzing definition, contents, measuring, cultivating or rebuilding of community social capital on the basis of theories, cases on community study and social capital. The question of the paper is how the social capital affects community building. In detail, how do the contents of social capital, such as network, trust and norm affect the community space, organizations and culture of community building? How do the above mentioned contents of social capital and essential factors of community building boost the democracy and governance in community?The hypothesis of the paper is that because the social transition and further reform, there have been great changes of the definition and structure of urban community. Therefore social capital and its operating model in urban community also change a lot. Confronted with such serious problems, new social capitals are inevitably favorable to community building and developing, intensively lying in the inner interaction between contents of social capital and community space, organizations and culture.Both the contents and the forms of social capital provide good idea for the urban community building and developing. So the community building can show the contents and affection of social capital in the following fields: community space, community organizations and community culture. The three are correlated and interacted, that is, community space is the institutional basis of development of organizations and culture; organizations, especially community grassroots organizations are the organizational resources of development of community space, the constructors of community culture, displaying the formal and informal network of social capital; community culture is the value basis of community space and organizations, showing the norms, trust of social capital. In one word, the three are unified in the community social capital building interactively.From the perspectives of social capital, changing and rebuilding of urban community social capital, this paper analyzes: the affection of the change of relationship between state and society in urban areas on the institutional space of community social capital's growing and developing; different organizations and their relations, especially the functions of community grassroots organizations; cultures and values of trust and norms during citizens in community. With above analyses, it aims to explore the inner connection between the change of social life in urban areas and social capital in order to find out the possibility of regulating the community life by way of changing the social capital's cultivation, finally realizing benign, harmonious development of cooperative, good, and sustainable governance.
Keywords/Search Tags:Social Capital, Community Building, Urban Community Social Capital, Community Space, Community Organization, Community Culture
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