Investigation And Research On The Social Capital Of College Students In Beijing

The theory of social capital is a relatively fast development in recent years and relatively novel theory, it is in the initial research field of sociology, after researching Robert Putnam, using social capital theory of performance difference of Italy north and south of the political system, has become a social science and politics and economics theory and research tools. Many domestic and foreign scholars study showed that a causal relationship exists between the very important social capital and the development of democratic politics, social capital is more abundant, the Democratic operation more successful, on the other hand, the social capital is weak, democratic work is hindered. Putnam in "making democracy work it" a book, the definition of social capital:"social capital refers to the characteristics of social organizations such as trust, norms and networks, they can pass Social capital is one of the important foundations in the process of democratic development, which affects the development and Realization of democracy in a certain extent.This article uses the questionnaire survey method and the interview method, From 91 colleges and universities in Beijing selected 14 universities, which is not only the "211 Project" universities is "985" three, "211 Project" universities in four, five ordinary undergraduate course colleges and universities, colleges. The college students to the status quo of social capital were investigation and study, in order from the perspective of college students to understand the social capital of China’s socialist democracy construction and puts forward suggestions to increase the stock of social capital in university students.Survey results show that social capital stock among college students in Beijing is still relatively weak, such as college students’ social network range is relatively narrow, concept of rule is not clear and trust in people around the value is relatively high but often with conditions. Therefore, in order to further improve the speed of development of democracy, to increase social capital of college students, government, society and individuals must to cultivate modern social capital, in order to obtain enough social capital.