1. The necessity of the thesis
Social structure along with the mode of production, economic structure of
society constitutes the basis of social reality, the basic factor, determining the
development of society. Historical materialism states: "In every historical age,
the primary mode of economic production and trade, together with the social
structure determined by that mode, forms the basis of politics history of the
time and the history of the intellectual development of the era, the basis that
only from which we can explain that history. "
The social structure is always changing depending on the change of
economic production and life. The transformation of social structure has a
strong impact on the transformation and development of economic production
and the society in general, including both positive and negative impacts. It can
be said, research on social structure and the transformation of social structure is
the urgent theoretical issue being set.
In Vietnam, in the renewal period, to develop the socialist-oriented
market economy, to accelerate industrialization and modernization and
international integration, social structure has significant and profound
transformations, creating social effects and consequences.
The Mekong Delta is one of the key economic regions of the country,
especially the agricultural economy, in which farmers are the large and main
workforce, the main subject of the industrialization and modernization process
of rural agriculture and new rural construction in the area.
In the past years, along with the strong economic changes, social structure
in general, the social structure of farmers in particular in the Mekong Delta also
has varied and diversified changes, contributing to the positive development in
the socio-economic aspects of the Mekong Delta and its social life; However,
there are also negative social consequences that are not desired, and there
should be a positive orientation for the change accordingly.
Because of this urgency, I chose the issue: "The transformation of the
social structure of farmers in the Mekong Delta nowadays", as the topic of the
PhD thesis in social science.
