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On The Relationship Between The Use Of Social Networks And Social Capital Available

Posted on:2014-11-11Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Q ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2267330398482372Subject:Sociology
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In recent few years, with the development of SNS (Social Networking Sites), the researched of how to get the social capital from Internet are more and more attention by the academic. Lin Nan, The sociology scholar who pointed out that the common role of social network and social relation is a source of social capital; The American political scientist, Robert D. Putnam, pointed out, the social network is one of the main channel of the group occupies the social capital, Establish and maintain the key point of social capital is the interaction among the members of the contact and communication in groups. Above view illustrates contact and interaction among group members is to obtain the basis of social capital. This study first the research status quo of social networks and social capital to sort out, and on this basis, analyzes the types of users use social networking social capital; the channels of social capital from social networks analysis; Followed by Chongqing college students in all network user, the use of quantitative research methods for data analysis and research conclusions. The use of social networks and social capital relationship was positively correlated with online social network users interpersonal beneficial to the user to obtain and maintain the social capital of individuals.With the rapid development of the Internet era, the purpose of this study is to explore the factors affecting between used social network and user social capital gain, and on the interaction relationship between the two further mine. Generally speaking, the general is to "get the capital content-obtain capital-the amount of social capital" this mentality to launch the elaboration.Based on the above ideas, this study earried out in accordance with the following framework:The first part, mainly expounds the research background and the research questions.The second part, study the relevant research results summarized in previous, fully absorb useful experience, and fully used in this study.The third part, Mainly expounds the research design in this paper, including research ideas and methods, the theoretical basis and research significance.The fourth part, this systematical study of the concept of social network and social capital connotation, origin to discipline of economics and sociology for reference, the intrinsic relationship between social capital and social network use. Interaction between group members and the fundamental basis of social capital.The fifth part, put forward the hypothesis, to Renren users in Chongqing college students were investigated with a questionnaire, the data will be collected information statistics, quantitative analysis of the relationship between the use of quantitative analysis method of using social networks and users of social capital, the relationship between the data analysis of the results of the two.The sixth chapter, the theoretical hypotheses and empirical research results of the research are reviewed and discussed, summarizes the research limitations, and future research direction for the future.
Keywords/Search Tags:SNS, Society Capital, Interpersonal Association, Renren
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