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. | Paradigm of Vietnamese Family Values: the Traditional and the Changing Le Ngoc Van1 1 Institute for Family and Gender Studies, Viet Nam Academy of Social Sciences. Email: lengocvan5@ Received: 2 June 2017. Accepted: 10 August 2017. 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. Keywords: family, paradigm of values, renovation, transforming paradigm of family values. Subject classification: Sociology 1. Introduction Over the past 30 years since the start of the renovation process, the Vietnamese society has undergone profound transformations in many respects. In essence, it is a shift from a traditional agricultural civilisation to an industrial and modern civilisation, and, at the same time, a transition from a centralised subsidised mechanism to a market mechanism with State regulation. This is a double conversion, which is ongoing, even still at the beginning, when the cultural patterns of an industrial society have not yet been fully formed, and the stereotypes of an agricultural society have not yet disappeared. Transition between two eras has caused many acute social problems: corruption, wastefulness, injustice, group interests, environmental pollution, etc. In the family, the aching issues are: increased separation and divorce, children being neglected, old people poorly taken care of, siblings involved in property disputes, and changing hierarchical order in
