社会质量、社区能力与城市居民的能力贫困

Social Quality,Community Capacity and Capability Poverty of Urban Residents

传统的贫困理论主要以收入高低来衡量贫困,忽视了贫困的非经济因素及其动态性特征。依据能力贫困理论,分析社会质量及社区能力对城市居民能力贫困的影响。研究显示,在社会质量指标中,社会经济保障、社会凝聚及社会赋权水平越高,个人能力贫困程度越低;而社区能力的提升可以显著降低城市居民的能力贫困程度。

Poverty is generally viewed merely as lowness of income in the traditional understandings, which neglects its＇ non-economic aspects and dynamic characteristics. Based on the capability poverty theory, this paper aims to examine the effect of social quality and community capacity on Chinese urban residents＇ capability poverty. The conclusions of this study include the following two aspects： firstly, among the dimensions of social quality, soci-economic security, so- cial cohesion and social empowerment can effectively alleviate capability poverty; secondly, urban residents＇ capability poverty Can he significantly reduced with the promotion of community capacity.