Research On The Measurement Of Shanghai Urban And Rural Poor Families' Social Capital

The Reform and opening up implement the economic development and social transformation of China, which improving people's living standard greatly. Although China has established the basic living allowances system for urban and rural residence, the problem of poverty hasn't been solved, becoming one of the most important tasks for Chinese government.In order to explain complex social-economic phenomenon, the concept of"Social Capital"is widely used in variety field of research. In the field of poverty reduction, social capital plays an important role.For the purpose of find out how much social capital do Shanghai urban and rural families own, this paper tries to build a measuring system for social capital of poor family, by analyzing theories of social capital and its function in poverty reduction, taking consideration of the research achievements about Shanghai urban and rural poor families' living condition. According to this measuring system, attempt has been made to calculate the capacity of Shanghai urban poor families'social capital, and then try to discover whether there are differences between them.Conclusions are as follows: The average social capital condition of these two kinds of family is almost similar; in the aspect of trust index, urban families perform worse than rural ones; in the aspect of participation index and respect index, rural families get lower scores.Finally, the paper tries to put forward some suggestion based on the results and analysis obtained above, so as to improve poor families'social capital and increase their possibility to get rid of poverty.