tailieunhanh - The Situation of Vietnamese value system studies

From the understanding of the terms “value system” and “Vietnamese value system”, this article focuses on the review, appraises the key studies of the West on Vietnamese value system as well as of Vietnamese scholars from the time of French colonialism until now. Based on that, the author proposes some ideas in identifying the current Vietnamese value system. | The Situation of Vietnamese. 3 The Situation of Vietnamese value system studies Nguyễn Thị Hoàn MA Thủy Lợi University Email ngochoan09@ Received 21 July 2016 published 15 December 2016 Abstract From the understanding of the terms value system and Vietnamese value system this article focuses on the review appraises the key studies of the West on Vietnamese value system as well as of Vietnamese scholars from the time of French colonialism until now. Based on that the author proposes some ideas in identifying the current Vietnamese value system. Keywords Value value system Vietnamese value system national character. I. The terms of value system and Vietnamese value system The term of value system appears more in the social sciences such as philosophy psychology pedagogy. However this is still a complex term defining its meaning as a scientific concept hasn t get the unanimity up to now. In general we would understand that the value system is the combination of different values arranged in a certain order to perform specific functions of assessments in a certain space-time. Each value in the value system is always historical-specific therefore there is no general abstract value system but it is always associated with specific subjects such as Vietnamese value system Chinese value system Western value system. Besides it is necessary to say that the value system is not a simple and crude set of values Trần Ngọc Thêm 2016 52 but it is arranged systematically following a certain order. In fact the value system of a nation is always impacted and determined by the social existence so it is like a mirror of society through the historical periods. Compared to other values in the value system of the nation the cultural value is considered to be the most important precisely because of this reason some people identified the cultural value system as value system of the nation. Usually the value system changes more slowly than the social existence and 4 Social Sciences .