Social Capital Attribute And Function Of Status

As products of traditional acts and traditional cultural in Chinese society, phenomenon of status still affects the behavior of Chinese people to the present day. Phenomenon of status can "reproduce" social phenomenon such as social relations, social interaction patterns, and it can make the value increased. Speak from this meaning, the status is a kind of resources or social capital. In modern Chinese society, the consciousness of status and status complex creates the attribute of social capital with status. And as a potential system of behavior, status influences the daily lives of Chinese people for a long time and steadily. The research of status makes for constructing favorable social order.When people utilize "status" to reaching utility melt goal, the "status" has been regarded as a kind of special social resource that can bring more social resource. That is to say, the value of "status" has been increased, and the "status" has become a kind of capital. However, not all "status" is utilized as tool. The process that individuals spend on "status" and convert the "status" into "social capital" is "status being capitalized". People utilize status, or ability of gaining the shortage resources, have formed the social capital possessed by it.As a kind of social capital, the existence of status is binary. The status has not only the qualities of resource, but also has the qualities of psychological distribution .The author trend to regard the social capital as structured construct. The status is not only the products of society, but also is a kind of social course. Various contradictions exist in the course of status constructing. However, these contradictions are not negative. On the contrary, these contradictions are very important. Just because these contradictions, the status is not restricted by external strength or factor completely and individual just has the opportunity of selecting status partially.To individuals, the change from traditional society to modern social means breaking away from chains of status and getting into contract integration and restrain. The advance of any society is a course from status to contract. In any society, contract and status is coexisting. The advance of society is a course of contract replacing status.