Thirteenth Global Studies Conference

Abstract

Industrialization and modernization are day by day causing a slow but deep changes in the culture of traditional craft villages. Changes in relationships of family and neighborhood tend to decrease cohesion more than before, even in some places there are the conflicts arising as a result of the conduct of traditional crafts, damaging community cohesion. In addition, in the lifestyle of traditional craft village many change in the tendency to form the necessary qualities that industrial society requires. These changes are consistent with the rules of social development. The purposes of this study is to clarify the changes in relationships in family, neighborhood, and lifestyle in the traditional Vietnamese craft villages today. Methodology involved giving questionnaires to 1,400 people and interviewing twenty-two people in seven traditional Vietnamese craft villages.