It is now extremely important to summarize the practice, do research, and develop theories on the working class in the current context of our socialist - oriented market economy, acceleration of industrialization, modernization and international integration. It will provide theoretical and practical grounds for building guidelines and measures to get comprehensive development of the working class in this period. The paper gives an overview of research findings on the lifestyle of workers in the context of industrialization and modernization. Apart from analyzing theoretical viewpoints concerned, the author also raises some hypotheses to be used for follow-up research works on this topic. | Lifestyle of Vietnamese Workers. LIFESTYLE OF VIETNAMESE WORKERS IN THE CONTEXT OF INDUSTRIALIZATION BUI MINH * Abstract: It is now extremely important to summarize the practice, do research, and develop theories on the working class in the current context of our socialist - oriented market economy, acceleration of industrialization, modernization and international integration. It will provide theoretical and practical grounds for building guidelines and measures to get comprehensive development of the working class in this period. The paper gives an overview of research findings on the lifestyle of workers in the context of industrialization and modernization. Apart from analyzing theoretical viewpoints concerned, the author also raises some hypotheses to be used for follow-up research works on this topic. Key words: Working class, lifestyle of Vietnamese working class. 1. Theoretical backgrounds of lifestyle Researchers believe that lifestyle is firstly a concept of sociology, although it may be approached from different perspectives (such as philosophy, politics, and economics etc.)(1). Regarding to the concept of lifestyle, Marxist – Leninist classic researchers emphasized that “mode of production” and “a certain mode of living” were related to each other(2). We can see obviously that this viewpoint was continuously developed by philosophical and sociological researchers afterwards. They considered the viewpoint as one of the key factors for scientific definitions of the lifestyle: daily activities of a person show his/her nature. In the 1970s, lifestyle-related issues used to be a focus of scholarly discussions and policy analyses in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (or the former Soviet Union). Analysis of lifestyle was closely attached with conditions for socialism building in that period. Researchers agreed that it was impossible to separate as well as confuse “living activities” with its manifestations. According to their viewpoint, lifestyle
