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Regional Social Transformation and Research on Urban Residents’ Social Capital

Author:Guo Yuntao, Institute of Ethnology and Sociology,Guangxi University for Nationalities   

  1. Author:Guo Yuntao, Institute of Ethnology and Sociology,Guangxi University for Nationalities  
  • Online:2011-07-20 Published:2011-07-20
  • Contact: Author:Guo Yuntao, Institute of Ethnology and Sociology,Guangxi University for Nationalities E-mail:zhuoyuntao@163.com
  • About author:作者:郭云涛广西民族大学民族学与社会学学院(Author:Guo Yuntao, Institute of Ethnology and Sociology,Guangxi University for Nationalities)Email: zhuoyuntao@163.com

Abstract:

Using the data from the CGSS2006 survey, this paper analyzes the impact of urban social transformation on the residents’ obtainment of social capital and the mobilization process. It is founded that, during the process of obtaining social capital, urban social transformation does not influence the residents’ social capital statuses but their positions in the social capital network. The average effects of the social capital “network position” factor among the supercity dwellers are much smaller than such effects among the smallcity dwellers. As a city expands, the negative impact of its marketization on the obtainment of social capital status through education diminishes. In the process of social capital mobilization, the extent of marketization is positively correlated with the economic returns from the effects of the social capital status factor but is independent of the economic returns from the effects of social capital network positions.

Key words: urbanize, marketization, social capital