Study On Impact Of Social Capital On College Students' Employment

The basic meaning of the concept of social capital has not yet reached a consensus. The representative views are that "social capital is a collection of resources related to institutional network", "social capital is a kind of resource with network infrastructure that is used to accomplish instrumental goals", "social capital is the trust, norms and network characteristics possessed by social organization" and so on. Illustrations of the concept of social capital are significantly different, but common in characteristics with resource, value-addition and network.On the basis of theoretical analyses through the concept, ways of division, and relative classical theory of social capital (Theory of Weak Ties, Theory of Social Resource, Theory of Strong Relations), the article defines the meaning of social capital of college students, it is the resource that is included in the social structure closely linked to college students; mainly consisting of three aspects of social capital: families', schools' and individuals'. Specifically, social capital is measured by nine variables, including education level of father and mother, family income, occupational prestige of father and mother, levels of school, whether or not to be party members, whether or not to be student leaders and Social Practice.The essay selects graduates in 2009 from Nanchang University, Huaibei Vocational-Technical College and other colleges and universities as study objects and makes a questionnaire survey, with 377 valid questionnaires being collected. It adopts the Binary Test to infer overall probability distribution from sample data. Then, from five dimensions of gender, to be or not one-child, categories of specialties, to be urban or rural, and educational background, the essay makes a comparative study of social capital among three aspects of family, college and individual. As a result, it discovers that there are remarkable differences only on the dimensions of gender, to be or not one-child and to be urban or rural, but not on the other two dimensions of categories of specialties and educational background. Specifically, graduates to befemale, one-child or urban own higher social capital than the others.Taking social capital of family, school and individual as the independentvariables, and employment psychology, employment behaviors, expected salaries and employment results of college students as the dependent variables, the essay makes a regression analysis. The results show that the higher social capital of family and school graduates have, the more optimistical they think of the current employment situation, the more confidence they have during the course of employment and they believe the less influence on employment they are affected by the financial crisis. Meanwhile, graduates with high family social capital are more reluctant to work in the rural or western areas. On the aspect of employment intensions, the analysis figures out that graduates who have higher social capital of family and school would rather choose further study than work directly after graduation. Moreover, it also get conclusions that, on the aspect of employment results, graduates who have higher social capital of family and more social experience and are members of CCP are much more easily employed. Based on the comprehensive evaluation with the regression model, the essay indicates that there is no multicollinearity and empty cells problem among the independent variables, and also model fitting effect is excellent.