社会资本概念在教育研究中的应用——综述与评论

The Concept of Social Capital and its Application in Educational Research:a Critical Review

本文试图通过基本的文献综述工作,初步介绍社会资本概念在教育研究领域的应用情况,以及梳理社会资本与教育结果有着怎样的关联;并对研究者目前使用的方法做简单的类型学概括,分析他们在使用社会资本概念描述教育现象和解释教育问题时,到底因循何种思路。

This article gives a critical and systematical literature review with regard to the concept of social capital and its application in educational research. It starts from a very brief introduction which combs out a thread to relate the social capital and educational outcomes. Moreover, this study gives a summary to categorize the existing methodologies which researchers have employed in recent literature. This can help the audience understand researchers＇ ways of thinking when they attempt to describe educational phenomenon and explain educational issues by the concept of social capital.