SOCIAL STRATIFICATION BASED ON OCCUPATIONS IN SOUTHERN REGION FROM THE 2000 DECADE UNTIL NOW

Abstract

The article uses four data sets of Viet Nam Living Standard Survey (VHLSS) 2006, 2010, 2014 and 2018 to explain the social stratification based on occupation in Southern Vietnam. The results show that, after 12 years, the class structure in the South still has the characteristics of an incomplete industrial society with the lower levels of occupations in lower classes accounting for a high proportion in the stratification tower in most of the year and the group of occupations in the upper and middle classes accounting for a relatively low proportion. There is a big difference in the stratification structure based on occupation in rural and urban areas, in the urban area the stratification tower has a canarium shape in most of the surveyed years, showing a developed industrial society, while in the rural, the stratification tower still has a pyramid shape with the lower classes accounting for high percentage, this shows that the social structure in rural Southern Vietnam still has an undeveloped agricultural society. On the other hand, in 2010 and 2014, the group of occupations in the middle and lower middle has decreased significantly due to the impact of the global economic and financial crisis.