Vietnam is on a great and deep change. The development under industrialization and modernization is a process that alters the origin of social structure.
The basic structure of Vietnam society is the structure in which village communities are the foundations. Those have existed in history of Vietnam and associate with agricultural production built on the foundation of public land, together with self-management of village community. To integrate in a modern society with new, outstanding development that appears for the first time in Vietnam’s history, structure of Vietnam’s traditional culture will be faced with many radical
changes. Among them, the stagnation and conservativeness of traditional agricultural community will be broken. Social structure associated with village community will be changed. It emancipates human being from single impact of traditional social environment, and brings them freedom to choose their way of living and cultural style that they like. Those changes are not accidental, it has social origin to which it is directly or indirectly connected. (*)
Those changes appear in many aspects, not only in familiar economic, political and social aspects but also in culture and lifestyle with their lively and diversified manifestations. These are some common manifestations: Firstly, that is the change in each person and it connects to the change of his family. In recent tens of years, the large family with traditional three or four generations under the same roof is gradually narrowed, while nuclear family predominates over