The Central Highlands’ Villages at the Present: The Effective Factors and Changing Tendency of Traditional Informal Institutions

Abstract

This writing made contribution to identification of the factors affecting the rapid change of living or social space of the traditional villages in the Central Highlands; at the same time, forecasted the tendency of change of the traditional informal institutions among the ethnic minorities in place from the view of transformation of traditional society to modern one in this region. Based on those, the writing proposed a number of recommendations for social management and bringing into play the role of some traditional informal institutions in sustainable development of the Central Highlands in these days