(1.Department of Leisured Sports and Management,Guangzhou Sport University,Guangzhou 510500,China;2.Department of Physical Education,Shanghai University of Finance and Economics,Shanghai 200433,China) Abstract: By taking community sports organization for example, the authors first defined social capital of commu-nity sports organizations, and then dissected that the following characteristics of interaction between community sports organizations and member society are conducive to generating social capital: 1)community sports organiza-tion is an association freely formed as a result of “sports fun based friendship”, a form of citizen society; 2)the smallness of organization size, the frequent, usually face to face interaction between the members; 3)the status equality of organization members, the geographical location closeness between the members; 4)the interaction be-tween organization members is provided the power mechanism to benefit others in the process of benefitting them-selves, a mutual benefitting behavior. Finally, the authors turned the operation of “interaction” into such 3 forms as exchange, cooperation and competition, and expatiated on the mechanism of generation of social capital of commu-nity sports organizations in such 3 specific forms of interaction. Key words: sports sociology;community sports organization;social capital |