人际关系资本与关系资本借贷

Relationship Capital and Its Debit/Credit

本文试图从互动论的研究视角,通过对一个关系资本借贷案例的分析,来说明人们是采取怎样的行动策略使社会资本的功能得以呈现的,并对功能主义和结构主义两种研究视角提出质疑。本文认为,人们只有通过其自身所拥有的动员能力,动用其社会关系网络中已存关系资本,或建构新的关系链条以借用顶端优势资本,才能最终使社会资本有效地发挥作用。

Applying the interaction theory to the analysis of a case that involved the debit / credit of relationship capital, this paper illustrates how social capital plays its functions when activated by people’s action strategies. The paper also questions the two theoretical perspectives of functionalism and structuralism. The author contends that, only with the mobilizing capacity owned by the person him / herself, can this person utilize the relationship capital that already exists in his / her social network to construct new relational chains in order to credit the top-level, outstanding capital and eventually bring out its values in an effective way.