A Model about the Influence of Social Capital on Small Towns

Abstract

There have been many studies on the influence of social capital on the construction of small towns in academic. This study takes 10 small towns in Xiamen city, Fujian Province, China as samples, and explores the role of social capital in promoting community construction of these small towns by dividing social capital into social capital at the individual level, namely micro social capital, and social capital at the community level, namely macro social capital. The findings, based on survey data from 2016 to 2019, show that social capital plays a positive role in promoting rural community building. The social capital of rural communities plays an especially significant role in promoting public services in rural communities.