Northwest The Mosque Economy, The Social Network Perspective

In this paper, the study object is the interaction relationship between mosque economy in northwest region (mainly in Ningxia region) and the Muslim communities for the purpose of analysis of the mosque economic structure under different organizational systems from the economic sociology and social network perspective, and further elucidate the interaction between economic relation network and religious network in Hui society.Chapter one of the paper outlines the economic development status quo of Hui people in northwest region and the Hui Merchants' Culture, which is the informal institutional factor in regional economic development, this sets the tone of economic sociology at institutional level for the study on the northwest Islamic economy.As a result of geographical differences in urban and rural areas and their different sects and menhuan and other reasons, the economic systems implemented in northwest region are different, and some differences are very large, reflecting the Chinese characteristics formed through the combination of original Islam system with traditional Chinese culture. In chapter two, firstly the concepts and theories of economic sociology is introduced, and the discussion on the applicability of the social network theory in this article lays the theoretical foundation for the article. On this foundation, further analyzes the different structural characteristics presented by the mosque economy under different religious organizational systems and economic systems from a few typical theory perspectives, and points out how the economic relation between mosque and Muslim reflects the structure of social networks of northwest Muslim, and what impact conversely incurred by the network on economy, religion and other aspects of social life.Chapter three is the conclusion part which discusses roles and status of relevant individuals in mosque economic network, and explains what impact incurred by the network relation interaction on the external community, and further points out the development space of Hui social economy This part also involves the important role of informal system.This paper describes and analyzes on "points" of mosques and economic behavior of Muslim individuals, respectively, by the method of collection and collation of literatures and documents combining with getting information through field surveys, draws out multiple internal relations between religious organizations and individuals, and finally extends to other aspects of social life.Today the concept of social network has gone beyond the scope of the relationship between individuals, and has been widely used by economic sociologists to study socio-economic behavior and processes. An actor of a network can be a corporate actor of a commercial company or a nation or a country. The relation connecting individuals in social network is also diverse; it can be genetic, blood relation, as well as market relation formed from commercial exchange and trade, or even hostile relation. This article discusses the structure mode of mosque economy in northwest region from the relationship between mosque and Muslims, it can be said the mosque economy is the research project integrating sociology, science of religion, economy and other theories of multiple subjects. This paper attempts to study the mosque economy in northwest region from the perspective of social network as well as economic sociology research. Its value lies the creation of a methodology first, at the same time it provides some demonstration basis and argumentation process.