The Accumulation And Update Of Social Capital

Based on the macro-background of Chinese social transition and the on-the-spot survey materials acquired by in-depth interview and questionnaire, this thesis applies the social structure and social capital theories to focus on the social capital utilization during the course of business activities of the urban self-employed industrialists and businessmen who came from rural areas(USIBR) in city community. Furthermore, the economic growth of the city and social structural transition problem are also discussed in the perspective of these people's social capital.First, beyond the parochial capital definition in the old economics, the thesis points out social capital is another important form of capital besides substantial capital and human capital. According to the expression form, the personal relations network, organizations and groups, and community standards are the three major categories of social capital utilized in USIBR's business activities.Second, the great difference of social capital utilization in different business stages are analyzed. In contrast to the condition of three years ago, the scale and structure of relation-type social capital are different, while organization-type social capital varies in the object and controlling way as well, as for the standard-type social capital, there are less human feeling norms but less modern market standards.Then, the thesis concludes the regulations of social capital utilization on USIBR's business. Generally speaking, the study demonstrates three points of the regulations in different business stages.Finally, on the basis of positive research the thesis further discusses theoretically the great significance of urban social structural to it's economic growth, and the tendency of the urban social structural transformation.