Paradigm of Vietnamese Family Values: the Traditional and the Changing

Abstract

The paradigm of Vietnamese family values under the transition from a traditional agricultural society to a society of today has been fast changing as a result of the impacts exerted by industrialisation, modernisation and international economic integration. Components of this paradigm vary in terms of magnitude and intensity, namely, while those values belonging to the economic-material field change rather radically, the values of human relationship, spiritual life, spirituality and faiths change gradually and incrementally; and the values rooted in indigenous culture have more vitality than those borrowed from the outside.