Research On The Function Alienation And Remodeling Of Social Capital In Rural Governance

Under the grand narrative of advancing the modernization of national governance capacity and governance system,why rural governance is effective has become an academic proposition that has attracted much attention.In recent years,scholars have generally regarded rural social capital as an important resource in rural areas,and affirmed its governance value in maintaining rural order,enhancing peasant cooperation,and promoting grassroots democracy.As Putnam said: We are in a community that contains a lot of social capital.The relationship between people is closely related to the effectiveness of community governance and the degree of citizen participation.If we ignore its existence,it will not only be difficult to break the shackles of collective action,but also Lead to low governance effectiveness.In today’s highly open society and rapid population flow,with the involvement of marketization,urbanization,and the rapid increase in rural population mobility,economic rationality and interest-oriented values have gradually become the main factors governing the actions of villagers.In the past,it was based on blood and geographic connections.The existing rural "ethics-based" pattern has gradually faded out of people’s vision,and the "contract-based" pattern maintained by the market and the rule of law has become increasingly clear and has become an important part of the future rural social order.The modern development of rural social capital during the transition period lacks effective academic support,and there is little academic attention and empirical exploration of the alienation of the function of rural social capital.In view of this,based on the empirical research of the underdeveloped village of S village in eastern Henan,this article explores the actual situation,internal logic and reshaping path of the alienation of social capital function in rural governance.This article is divided into six parts.The first chapter is the introduction.The second chapter defines the concept of rural governance,social capital and its functional alienation,and constructs the analysis framework of this article based on social capital theory and collective action theory.The third chapter is based on the case study of the operation of social capital in Yudong S Village,discussing the problem of the functional alienation of rural social capital at the trust,standard,and network levels and its impact on rural governance.The fourth chapter analyzes the mechanism of the alienation of the function of rural social capital from the weakening of trust,the tension of norms,and the evolution of the network.The fifth chapter puts forward the path of reshaping rural social capital in a targeted manner.Finally,the full text is summarized and prospected.The study found that clan organizations with blood kinship as the core began to recover under the pattern of "township governance and village governance",and the social capital behind it,such as trust,norms,and the Internet,is also an important resource that cannot be ignored in the modernization of rural governance.From the perspective of the actual role of rural social capital,although Chinese villages show heterogeneous characteristics,they are faced with the task of shifting from traditional social capital to modern social capital in the process of social transformation.Functional alienation affects the process of "good governance" in the countryside.Specifically,the alienation of the cooperative function of trust brings difficulties to the collective action of the village to a certain extent,the alienation of the normative restraint function brings conflicts to the village order,and the alienation of the mutual assistance function of the network causes the collective consensus of the village community to dissolve.In the specific governance process,the villagers’ non-cooperation in the construction of beautiful villages and the distrust among neighbors and cadres and groups have caused the vacuum of village environmental governance and the loss of the village’s social capital stock.The interaction between the two has led to the village society.The cooperative function of trust has been alienated,that is,the formation of cooperative dilemma.At the level of social norms,the restraint function has been alienated,which is manifested as the short-term behavior of the villagers under the induction of utilitarianism to divide the public interest,which brings chaos and disorder to the village’s social order;at the social network level,the function of mutual assistance appears Alienation is manifested as a crony network centered on interests that continues to erode the community network of village communities,leading to a weak sense of community of governance subjects.Therefore,the function of rural social capital should be reshaped through the three dimensions of trust balance,norm integration and network connection.It is worth noting that the three elements of social capital’s trust,norms,and network are not simple linear relationships.The three are complementary and affect each other.Trust is the cornerstone of network construction and compliance with norms.The network provides an effective carrier for trust cooperation and normative operation,while norms are the guarantee for promoting trust and optimizing the network.In the context of rapid urbanization,the endogenous resources of rural society are constantly being disintegrated and are in the gap between tradition and modernity.It should be noted that modernization is not abandoning traditional rural resources,and rationally use and reshape traditional resources in rural areas,thereby effectively increasing the stock of social capital in villages.It can not only realize the root cause of the alienation of social capital,but also revitalize the countryside.Play its positive value function in China,and contribute to the modernization of grassroots governance.The future research on rural social capital needs to be closely integrated with rural strategic goals such as rural revitalization and rural governance modernization,so as to systematically and comprehensively promote rural social capital to empower the modernization of rural society.