Upper Or Lower: The Influence Of Social Capital On The Deviation Of Class Status Recognition

Class status recognition refers to the subjective position of individuals in a certain class status position on their own class status. Especially in the transition period, the level of class status recognition can reflect the level of the individual's own sense of access. But the recognition of class status and the individual's objective class status is not always consistent. Many researchers have found that, there are clear deviations,influenced by objective class status, macroeconomic factors, individual class mobility and other factors, between individual's class status recognitions and their objective class status. Based on the existed researches, this paper explores the causes of the deviation of class status recognition from the perspective of social capital. This article operates the concept of social capital into three different indicators, horizontal social capital,longitudinal social capital and institution-crossing social capital. With the data of CGSS2008, this research uses the methods of multiple linear regression and ordered logistic regression to explain this phenomenon from the three different dimensionalities of social capital. The final results show that, ceteris paribus, (1) the richer the horizontal social capital individual process, their class status recognition will show upward bias;(2) the higher the longitudinal social capital individual process, their class status recognition will show downward bias; (3) the construction of cross-institutional social capital will make the individual's class status recognition show the upward bias, but when this indicator and other social capital indicators into models, its impact is no longer significant.