Social Capital of Chinese Policy Elites :An analysis in the view of structuralism

The study of social capital theory has always been baffled by its functionalism . To avoid logical tautology and self_contradictory problems on measurement, this article 243 proposes a structural approach on the study of soical capital theory , which means that social capital should be defined by its network structure rather than its network function . Based on a structural approach, this article will focus on the analysis of the overall_ structure and class_structure of the networks of Chinese policy elites.Having surveyed 301 representative policy elites from 25 provinces all over the country in 2004, we found that the three aspects of the intercourse process, namely, identification mark, interpersonal skill and individual efforts, which are embodied by the four variables of education , system stability of job mobility , administrational level , and social intercourse participations, have significant contributions to social capital of policy elites.Moreover, because of the “ admittance doorsill” effect that we tend to classify the groups we are communicating with according to their class, the contributions of these factors above show obvious characteristic of ladderlike structure.

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