丁华东在１９９９年第１１期《档案与建设》上撰文，认为私人档案的社会性表现为三个层次：（一）私人档案记载内容的社会性是其社会性的基本表现。作为个人，不可能孤立于社会，孤立于他人，在活动中必然与组织、他人发生联系，因而在私人档案中也记录了大量的政府、政党... An article written in “Archives and Construction” argues that the social performance of private archives is three levels: (1) The sociality of the contents of personal archives is the basic manifestation of its sociality. As an individual, it is impossible to be isolated from society and be isolated from other people. In the course of an activity, it is inevitable that it has an association with organizations and other people. As a result, a large number of government and political parties are also recorded in private archives.