Abstract:

Social governance community is an important subject in China's new period as well as a vital research object for the modernization of national and grassroots governance. This study explores the realization pathway of social community governance from the perspectives of “subject relationship” and “mode of action”. In this paper, those perspectives are combined in the context of a case study of the “Minor Facts” project in Z City, S Province through an analytical framework of “Capacity build - Habitus accumulation -Strengthening trust ”. This paper also discusses the project's evolution. It began with passive participation but led to a cooperative governance mechanism that allowed multiple subjects to grow into a social governance community.

Key words: mobilization participation, collaborative governance, multiple subjects, social governance