Social Capital Theory And Its Applicability In China

Social capital is becoming the popularity of the social science community in the past30years. It is not only stimulate academic debate, guide the direction of social policy, but also caused widespread concern in society by the mass media, and even was incorporated into our daily life. In recent years, social capital theory has also been a lot of transplanted in China studies. However, due to differences of the problem of social capital theory in point, the system characteristics, social characteristics, cultural foundation, values between china and Western World, Social Capital will have limited applicability in China.At present, the study of the theory of Social Capital is facing four major problems: First is the lack of social capital theory holistic cognitive,which results differences continue; Second is the applicable conditions of the lack of social capital theory carding system, resulting in a lot of research Myth; Third is we have payed little attention to reflect the applicability of the theory in China. From a logical development of science in terms of social theory, more than a few problems are not isolated, but connected with each other, mutually reinforcing relationship. In this paper, we made the assumption of the theory of social capital by combing the literature:Social Capital Theory in Chinese studies limited application.Question point:"Return to the Community." Social capital theory birth time is exactly the idea of civil society in the era of sweeping the globe, people hope to reshape and strengthen civil society to resist the "nationalism" of misappropriation and penetration of civil society, in order to achieve positive interaction between state and society. But over-expansion of civil society but also to the social life brought a lot of negative effects of personal contact with the traditional relationship between the bond is broken, the state and society into a state of long-term conflict. In order to bridge the rift between the relationship between the individual and the community, people do a lot of effort. In real life, people through "artificial creation" a large number of social organizations to reshape the community. At the theoretical level, scholars have not satisfied the rational choice theory, new institutionalism, cultural assumptions and logical argumentation, research vision began to shift community building "soft" side, including the network of relationships, trust, informal norms.Social Capital Theory:Integration and limited. Although social capital theory has strong explanatory power, but its theoretical level of diversity and complexity of the analysis dimensions also enable researchers puzzled. Lead to a lot of criticism for this social theorists of social capital theory. With the help of systems theory approach to social capital is divided into micro, meso and macro levels, and in accordance with the dimensions of the gap analysis will be divided into structural dimension of social capital and cognitive dimension, on this basis for the theory of social capital for system integration and summarized the applicability conditions of social capital theory:the cultural foundation, institutional characteristics, social basis, values and theoretical premise. Qualification based social capital theory, the article finally from the theoretical level, the real level of social capital theory of finite application of this hypothesis is proved.