TThis is an announcement to invite you to the CSEAS Colloquium for December 2016.

Date & Time: Thursday, December, 22, 2016, 16:00-17:30

Place: Middle-sized Meeting Room (No. 332), 3rd Floor, Inamori
Foundation Building, Kyoto University

Title: Social Stratification in the South Economic Zone of Viet Nam:
Some Findings from a Survey in 2015.

Speaker: Dr. BUI The Cuong
Professor, Southern Institute of Social Sciences (Vietnam Academy of
Social Sciences), CSEAS Visiting Research Scholar

Abstract:
Viet Nam has dramatically been experiencing several social
transformations in her modern history since the last century up today.
Those social changes have clearly reflected in the configurations of the
different main social structures of the society, including the social
stratification. In 2015, a survey on social changes was conducted in the
South Economic Zone of Viet Nam. It consists of 2,880 households living
in 80 wards or communes. The presentation outlines the social
stratification structures by occupational groups based on the data set
analysis of the survey. Three properties attached to the social groups,
namely the knowledge, economy and power resources, are measured by three
variables: years of schooling, household’s assets, and being a member
of the ruling Party. The analysis highlights that the distributions of
those resources are consistently structured by the configuration of
social stratification. The findings of the quantitative analysis are
linked to the broader historical and structural changes in the country.

BUI The Cuong is Senior Researcher and Professor of Sociology at the
Southern Institute of Social Sciences, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam. He is
principal investigator of several research projects on social
stratification, civil society and community research in the South region
of Viet Nam.

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