【摘要】农民专业合作社是现代市场经济条件下世界各国农业领域的一种重要组织形式。众多研究表明，农民专业合作社是实现分散小农户和大市场对接，提高农户进入市场的组织化程度的一个重要途径。我国西北地区合作社的发展滞后于中东部，而偏远民族地区合作社的发展状况更是令人堪忧。本文回顾了理论界对农民合作社以及社会关系网络的相关理论研究，并以社会关系网络理论为视角观察民族地区合作社案例来研究该地区的社会关系网络如何影响农民合作社的生成，挖掘该地社会关系网络的特点及其对合作社生成的影响分析。本文的创新之处主要有两点：一是以社会关系网络为视角来探讨民族地区特有的社会关系网络对农民合作社生成的影响，发现这些影响因子的作用原理。二是从研究的视角和研究内容方面能够丰富我国农民合作社的生成及发展的研究。论文主要由以下六个部分构成：第一部分，主要介绍了本文的选题背景、研究意义、研究思路和方法。第二部分，回顾了理论界关于农民专业合作社生成以及社会网络关系等相关理论研究。第三部分，简述了民族地区--甘肃临夏东乡县的合作社的发展概况及合作社主要类型，详细描述了民族地区典型合作社的案例。第四部分，分析了民族地区合作社生成背后蕴藏的民族特色社会关系网络。第五部分，分析了民族地区——东乡族人们的社会关系网络存在的缺陷，并针对民族地区特有的社会关系网络特点，对于合作社的发展提出了相应的政策和建议。第六部分，总结了本文的主要结论，并指出了本文的不足和有待深入研究的地方。

　　【关键词】社会关系网络；东乡族自治县；农民合作社

　　【Abstract】Farmer cooperatives is an important organization in the field of agriculture under Modem Market Economy around the world. Numerous studies have shown that farmers' professional cooperatives is an important way to realize the docking of dispersing small farmers and largemarkets, and improve the farmerst level of organization when they enter the market. Thedevelopment of Cooperative in northwest China lags behind the central and east China, not tomention the Cooperative in remote ethnic areas. This article reviews the theoretical research onfarmers' cooperatives and social network, and tries to observe how the social network affects thefarmer cooperatives by a typical case of cooperatives in Dongxiang Nationality from the perspectiveof social network theory. By picking the relationship between social networks and FarmerCooperatives, we expect to find out characteristics of social network in minority areas and how thesocial network affects cooperatives. There are two main innovations of this article, One is exploringsocial network's influence on the formation of farmers' cooperatives in the ethnic areas from theperspective of social network. The other one is that we focuses on the social network's influence onthe formation of cooperatives in the ethnic areas which enriches research on the formation offarmers' cooperatives in minority areas of China.

　　This paper mainly consists of the following six - part, the first part of this article mainlydescribes the background, significance and research methods; The second part reviews the relatedtheories about the formation of Peasant Professional Cooperative and social network; The third partoutlines the development and the main type of cooperatives, and describes a typical case ofcooperatives in detail. The part IV give an analyze of the national characteristics of social networkof cooperatives in the ethnic areas; The Part V indicates the defect of social network of Dongxiang people, and makes appropriate policies and proposals for the development of cooperative based on the social network features national area. The section VI summarizes the main conclusions of this article, and pointed out the shortcomings of this article and place to be an in-deep study.

　　【Key words】social network; Dongxiang county; farmer cooperatives