The Rural Economic Cooperative Organization In The Perspective Of Social Capital

The issues concerning agriculture, countryside and peasants have become China's biggest headache and obstacles to modernization; especially peasant's question is a core of the question. So the peasant's civilization is the main way to solve the agriculture issues. Rural economic cooperative organization is an organization of peasants, which established by really voluntary, independent management, to solve the problems of rural public goods and agricultural industrialization. With the developing and further improving of market economy, the further transition of government's function, rural cooperative economic organization can play the role of independent economic organization not merely, and can become the bridge between government and peasant on politics. This thesis will discuss the background and function of rural economic cooperative organization, and the problems of its foundation and development taking a organization in Shanxi province as case.Why does the senior rural economic cooperative organization continue in existence? There are many study of the organization in economics, but are short in sociology. The writer used the social capital theory, researched the daily action of the cooperative organization, and then found that the substantial factors which influence the organization are promotion of social vulnerable position and personal rationality, the relationship net and the action of community quintessence. Based on these, the writer explored the problems in cooperative organization. It's also the new ideas of this issue.Through the study, the writer found these standpoints. For lack of social capital, peasants are the vulnerable status in market games. The government has no effective policies to solve this problem, so based on individual reason and acquaintance society, the combination of community social capital and quintessence's mobilization promotes the organization's development. The social capitals provide many financial, manual labor and policies supports in the process of organization's development. Because the cooperative organizations have defects, and members have different social capital quantity, the interests that members got is also different, who have more social capital, will get more interests, on the contrary, the members get less or no interests. This is "the reduction of universalism" and "the rising of specialism".In addition, there is no law about the rural economic cooperative organization. The government hasn't transfer power to lower level, so the cooperation organization is doubted of its legitimacy. In the process of development and gravitation, the organization has more contradiction with government and enterprises. It's an obstacle to progress. In this thesis, that's "the doubt of legitimacy" and "the loss of institution's integration", as well as the difficult position between government and enterprises.