(1.Department of Physical Education,Tsinghua University,Beijing 100084,China;2.Department of Physical Education,Xinjiang Agriculture University,Urumqi 830052,China) Abstract: Social capital is an important role and variable in social economic activities, also a key in the study in such areas as sociology, economics and management science. Affected by researches on social capital in terms of sociology, economics and management science, researches on sport and social capital has gradually caught the at-tention of the academic community of sport in recent 10 years. From the perspective of research classification, re-searches on sport and social capital made by foreign scholars mainly include 3 major aspects: researches on the rela-tions between sports organizations/groups and social capital, researches on social capital generation participated by sport, and researches on negative influence on social capital participated by sport; the types of researches on sport and social capital made by domestic scholars include researches on the influence of social capital on the sports area, and researches on the influence of sport as an important variable on the formation of social capital. From the per-spective of research paradigm, researches on sport and social capital made by the sport area were all empirical re-searches in which factual materials were obtained based on observation and interview. From the perspective of the problem domain of researches, there were still quite a number of blind spots in researches on sport and social capi-tal, and there are still a lot of issues worthy of in-depth study. Key words: sport sociology;sport;social capital;review |