快速城市化与社会信任--基于中国综合社会调查数据的实证研究

Rapid Urbanization and Social Trust:An Empirical Study Based on the Data of Chinese General Social Survey

城市化是经济社会发展的必然规律,但快速城市化可能带来诸多负面影响,社会信任水平下降是可能的负面影响之一。城市化会打破原有的社会网络、引发资源争夺、增加外部环境不确定性、引起原有居民对新移民的排斥,这些均可能加剧社会矛盾并恶化社会信任。基于中国综合社会调查(CGSS)数据的研究结果显示,社会信任水平随着城市化速度的增加而显著降低,特别是,快速的城市化会显著降低社会信任水平。鉴于社会信任水平下降会导致许多重大负面影响,政府部门非常有必要在快速城市化进程中关注这一问题。

Urbanization is an inevitable law of economic and social development,but rapid urbanization may bring about many negative effects,one of the possible negative effects is the decline in social trust.Urbanization will break the original social network,trigger the resource competition,increase the uncertainty of the external environment,and cause the exclusion of new immigrants by the original residents.All of these may aggravate social conflicts and worsen social trust.The findings of the research based on the data from the Chinese General Social Survey(CGSS)show that the level of social trust decreases significantly with the increase in the speed of urbanization,especially,rapid urbanization will significantly reduce the level of social trust.In view of the fact that the decline in social trust will lead to many major negative effects,it is very necessary for the government departments to pay attention to this issue in the process of rapid urbanization.