Social capital, Chinese style
Individualism, relational collectivism and the cultural embeddedness of the institutions–performance link
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12917812 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carsten Herrmann Pillath (0000-0001-6078-0078, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 325-350 |
| Publication date | 2010-03-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | China Economic Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1753-8963 • E-ISSN: 1753-8971 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17538960903529568 |
| OpenAlex | W2020437021 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 73 |
China is the odd man out in the research on social capital and economic performance. A brief survey of recent World Values Survey data shows China to be a high-trust, achievement-oriented society, which does not fit into popular pictures of rampant corruption and abuses of power. I argue that one difficulty results from methodological issues in research on social capital, where a universally accepted theory of social capital is lacking, including theoretically grounded methods of measurement. These resulting applications often generalize a Western notion of civil society as a benchmark, implicitly. I propose that social capital has to be conceived as a context-bound intermediate level theoretical term, putting methodological arguments by Durlauf (economics) and Little (Chinese studies) together. The resulting empirical method is that of triangulation across different disciplines, combining emic and etic approaches. I present an application on the notorious phenomenon of guanxi in China, which results in its re-conceptualization as ego-centric networking and relational collectivism, based on a culturally specific framing of affectual aspects of social relations. With this notion of culturally specific social capital, we can better understand the relation between institutions and economic performance in China
China · Collectivism · Conceptualization · Economic capital · Economic growth · Economic system · Economics · Embeddedness · Emic and etic · Guanxi · Human capital · Individual capital · Individualism · Political science · Positive economics · Social capital · Social reproduction · Social science · Sociology · Sophistication · Cultural Differences and Values · Law · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Capital and Networks · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 17 |
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| Citations per year | 1,31 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2025 (13) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |