“Sổ nợ đời” - Vốn xã hội: Định đề giới hạn về trao đổi xã hội hay những mối liên hệ liên chủ thể (Tiếp cận Nhân học từ một đám ma ở làng Nùng Phàn Slình, tỉnh Thái Nguyên)

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This article examines the social relations using the social network theory, which is concerned with social relations and social exchange based on the viewpoints of the American sociologist Nan Lin. One of Lin’s considerations when he discusses the social exchange is that he emphasizes bilateralism, which is limited to the transfer of gifts of affection-and-gratitude debts from individual to individual. Based on the anthropological data collected from three different fieldwork sessions from 2003 up to now in Nung Phan Slinh village in Thai Nguyen province, Vietnam, the author poses a question of how the individual relationships are situated in the context of the social network perspectives. He offers a conclusion that in the Vietnamese culture, social exchange between individuals creates social capital, but these exchanges go beyond the limits of bilateralism gift exchange between individuals defined by Lin. The life debt is a form of social exchange that goes beyond the individual and into the next generation in principle.