A Summary on Social Capital

Social capital means a social relation network based on credit and cooperation for public interests.Since nineties of the 20th century,many researchers have paid their attention to social capital,which becomes a popular concept and an analysis paradigm in some disciplines.Experts in sociology,economics,politics,management science use the concept to demonstrate some phenomena and promote it to an equal position to economical capital and culture capital.Focuses on study on social capital by Chinese academic circles are as follows:ⅰ)A historic development course of social capital.ⅱ)A kind of interrelated study on connecting social capital with politics and policy execution.ⅲ)Discussing on relations between social capital and government function.ⅳ)How to cultivate social capital.ⅴ)Prospects for social capital development.This article gave a brief summary on study on social capital from many aspects in order to attach importance to social capital and enlarge knowledge about it.