Social Capital Analysis of the Community Construction in Urban China

Social capital is a new analysis pattern and a popular concept which has been formed since 1990, and it has attracted attentions from several major disciplines. The theory gives a new study angle to the community construction in China. This paper figures out that, in the process of community construction, community reform controlled by the government makes the functions of the Residents'Committee more administrative, it also neglects to cultivate social capital, the residents seldom participate the community activaties. So the paper holds that social capital in the community should be cultivate by developing Community Self-governance, in order to enlarge the quantity of community social capital and achieve Community Self-governance.