互惠和道德——试论社会资本研究的大致脉络

RECIPROCITY AND MORALITY——On the Study of Social Capital

社会资本研究日渐成为多学科共同关注的领域。学界研究主要集中在对社会资本概念的理解、对其作用的认识以及在经验层面的运用上。社会资本研究的核心要素,诸如资源、信任、互惠、合作、规范和网络等,成为社会资本研究范式的共识,但诸多学者的侧重有所不同,因而学界对社会资本的理解显得较为凌乱。另外,学界对社会信任在社会资本中的位置,也难有一致的共识。笔者试图通过对目前已有的社会资本研究成果以及在其视角下信任研究的重要成果进行梳理,为探寻建立适合我国国情的社会资本研究范式作一点有益的思考。

The study of social capital is increasingly becoming the attention of many branches of study. The study of the academic field is mainly concentrated on the understanding of the concept of social capital, its function and its empirical application. The fundamental elements of social capital study such as resources, trust, reciprocity, cooperation, regulations and network, etc have become common knowledge of the study mode of social capital, but different scholars attach importance to different aspects and as a result the understanding about social capital cannot reach agreement in the academic field. Likewise, the academic field cannot reach agreement on the position of social trust in social capital. Through sorting out the existent research findings of social capital and the results of trust research, the author tries to make some beneficial thinking in order to find a research mode for social capital that is suitable for the situation in our country.