社会资本:渊源·理论·局限

社会资本理论是近年来经济社会学研究中新兴的理论。它产生于社会网络研究基础之上 ,逐渐发展成为较系统的理论体系。它的产生 ,为研究经济行动、社会关系和社会结构对经济发展的作用提供了一个新的分析框架 ,大大拓展了社会学家与经济学家的研究视野。但是 ,它在概念的界定、测量等方面存在的问题 ,制约了社会资本理论的发展与应用。本文主要对社会资本的理论渊源、概念界定、基本理论以及社会资本理论的局限进行分析和探讨 ,以使人们对社会资本理论有一个全面、清晰、准确的认识 ,促进社会资本理论的进一步深入研究。

Social Capital: Origin, Theory and Defect

The article analyses and discusses social capital in aspects of theoretical origin, basic theory and theoretical defect, such as theoretical origin in sociology and economics, definition of social capital, character of social capital, effect of social capital, form of social capital, pattern of social capital and measurement of social capital, etc. The goals of the essay are to sum up main theoretical aspects of social capital; and on this basis discuss theoretical defect so as to achieve a thorough and clear insight into social capital and will be of great help to further studies on this subject.