Social Relations, Regional Variation, and Economic Inequality in Contemporary Vietnam: A View from Two Vietnamese Rural Communities

The salience of social connections or social capital in Vietnam is summed up in a contemporary Vietnamese saying regarding different factors of importance in the Vietnamese labour market:‘nhât hâu duê, nhì quan hê, ba tiên tê, bôn trí tuê’(‘Of first importance is descent; second are social relations...

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1. Verfasser:	Hy V. Luong
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Sprache:	eng
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Zusammenfassung:	The salience of social connections or social capital in Vietnam is summed up in a contemporary Vietnamese saying regarding different factors of importance in the Vietnamese labour market:‘nhât hâu duê, nhì quan hê, ba tiên tê, bôn trí tuê’(‘Of first importance is descent; second are social relations; third is money; and fourth is the intellect’). Such a saying may over-simplify reality, but it is a fact that ethnic Vietnamese from all walks of life think first and foremost of social connections in their search for the solutions to various problems in their daily lives: from the purchase of