The Linking of Social Capital to Social Actions in the Chinese Community-The Construction of Native Social Capital Theory

• Main Authors: Yu-LinHsueh, 薛峪霖
• Other Authors: Jen-Fang Ting
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/3h2q27

碩士 === 國立成功大學 === 政治經濟學研究所 === 101 === For social science field, social capital has been an academic concept and widely discussed. That was a critical connotation when it worked in the Western society and the Chinese Community. In the Western society, the base of social capital theory was Individualism, differ from familism and collectivism in the Chinese Community, therefore the Western specific phenomenon could not provide good explanations for the Chinese Community. In view of the “guanxi” concept was similar with social capital, this study constructed a native social capital theory, included “guanxi” concept to explain the linking of social capital to social actions. The main question of this study is how to apply the native social capital theory to explain the linking of social capital to social actions and social action patterns. In other words, why the social network in the Chinese Community is a vital variable to social actions? And how the favor power in the Chinese Community linked “guanxi” concept? This study refer to Ho, Yau-Fai (1998) proposed “methodological relationalism“, Hwang, Kwang-Kuo (2009) proposed “Confucian social relations” and the theory of social capital by Robert Putnam, to construct the native social capital theory. This study considered that it cannot only use quantitative research to comprehend the favor situation and face situation of the native social capital theory. Consequently, this study use triangulation to be research method, used questionnaire and in-depth interview simultaneously. First, this study applies exploratory factor analysis to measure the relations between social capital and social actions. Second, this study applies semistructed interviews to analyze thesis data. About the sampling of qualitative method, this study selected the purposeful sampling. The purposeful sampling included the person of community empowerment; all of them presented the particular and representative. This study confirmed the social network of the person of community empowerment, its social network strengthened then others. It will assist this study to clarify the linking of social capital to social actions. This study discovered: social capital can effect social actions. It can generalize three patterns: one is the spontaneous leading; another is the institutional designing; and the other is recourse injecting. These consequence provided the examination for native social capital theory constructing.