TTLV: Family functions in the urbanization process in Hanoi today

MASTER'S THESIS INFORMATION

1. Student's full name:Kieu Thi Ngoc Anh.

2. Gender: Female.

3. Date of birth: May 30, 1989.

4. Place of birth: Binh Phuoc.

5. Student recognition decision No. 2998/2013/QD-XHNV-SDH dated December 30, 2013 of the President of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.

6. Changes in training process: None.

7. Thesis topic name:Family functions in the urbanization process in Hanoi today. 

8. Major: Philosophy Code: 60.22.03.01

9. Scientific instructor:Dr. Nguyen Thi Thanh Huyen- Lecturer, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.

10. Summary of thesis results:

The family is the "cell" of society, the cradle that nurtures a person's whole life, an important environment for personality formation and lifestyle education for people. The family undertakes its own functions that no other social institution has. In the history of human development, the family has affirmed its important position and role. Although history has gone through many changes and ups and downs, the position and importance of the family to society have not changed. A healthy family cell will make the society healthy, and everyone will have the opportunity to develop. Therefore, strengthening the family foundation on the basis of performing well the family's functions is always a concern of countries around the world. However, as a cell of society, the family and the performance of family functions are greatly influenced by the process of social change. On that basis, the thesis contributes the following two important research results:

Firstly, the research results of the thesis contribute to clarifying the current status of family function implementation in the process of urbanization in Hanoi.The urbanization process is having a strong impact on society in general and each family in Hanoi in particular. Urbanization creates profound changes in people's lives, in which the suburban areas are the places that most clearly reflect the effects of urbanization. That impact has both positive and negative aspects. The positive aspect is that it improves the material and spiritual life of families, helping families to better perform their economic functions, thereby creating conditions to better perform their reproductive and educational functions, while satisfying basic human needs in life. However, the strong development of urbanization goes hand in hand with the shrinking of agricultural land due to reclamation or conversion of land use purposes. This situation has a strong impact on families in Hanoi, especially families in suburban areas. When agricultural land is gone, people face unemployment, lack of jobs, housing difficulties, etc., affecting the sustainable development of families and society.

Second, propose some basic recommendations and solutions to promote positive impacts and limit negative impacts of the urbanization process on the implementation of family functions in Hanoi today.In fact, the development of each family has made a positive contribution to the overall stable and sustainable development of society. In the process of urbanization in Hanoi, the implementation of family functions has taken place in both positive and negative directions, in which the positive aspects are the main ones. However, the implementation of family functions in the current period is also posing many challenging issues. That requires the attention and leadership of the Party and State, the close direction of local authorities at all levels and the participation of each family and each family member to promote the positive aspects and limit the negative impacts of urbanization on the implementation of family functions in Hanoi. To do that, in addition to having the right viewpoints and perspectives, comprehensive and systematic research results on the urbanization process in Hanoi, on the impacts of urbanization on the implementation of family functions in Hanoi (especially in suburban districts), it is extremely necessary to create a scientific premise for the author to identify and propose 5 basic groups of solutions to promote the positive impacts and limit the negative impacts of the urbanization process, helping Hanoi families increasingly perform their functions well, contributing to building a happy, equal, civilized and progressive Hanoi family.

11. Practical application:

Based on the research, analysis, and evaluation of the current status of family function implementation and identification of some issues arising from the impact of urbanization on the implementation of family functions in Hanoi today, the thesis provides scientific evidence for proposing some solutions to promote negative impacts and limit the negative impacts of urbanization on the implementation of family functions in Hanoi. At the same time, the thesis can be used as a reference document, serving research and teaching of subjects such as Philosophy and Sociology.

INFORMATION ON MASTER'S THESIS

1. Full name: Kieu Thi Ngoc Anh 2. Gender: Female

3. Date of birth: May 30, 1989 4. Place of birth: Binh Phuoc

5. Admission decision number: 2998/2013/QD-XHNV-SĐH, dated December 30, 2013 by the Rector of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Hanoi - Vietnam National University Hanoi.

6. Changes in academic process: No change

7. Official thesis title: Family function in the process of urbanization in Hanoi today.

8. Major: Philosophy; 9. Code: 60.22.03.01

10. Instructor: Ph.D Nguyen Thi Thanh Huyen – Lecturer of Philosophy, the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Hanoi - Vietnam National University Hanoi.

11. Brief of Result:

Family is the “cell” of society and is the cradle feeding one's life, it is an important environment to build up personality and create their lifestyle. Family gets the unique function that no other social condition has gotten the same. By the human historical development, the family has proven its essential role. History underwent many changes, ups and downs, however family's position in society has not ever changed. A good family is contributing to a good society, of which, people get more development opportunities. Strengthening family foundation based on performance of its functions is always taking concern of nations around the world. However, as the cell of society, the family and the performance of its functions are greatly influenced under the process of social change. On this matter, the thesis presents two important results as follows:

The first, the thesis clarifies the existing situation of implementation of family's functions during process of Hanoi urbanization for today. The urbanization is impacting on both society and family. It makes deep changes into people's lives, peri-urban areas where clearly reflects the influence of urbanization most. The influence brings out influences both positive and negative. Positive is raising up the quality of physical and mental life into every family, thereby the economic function of family is improved and giving better conditions to reproductive and educational functions, simultaneously satisfying the basic needs of life. However, the development of urbanization associates strongly with shrinking area of ​​agricultural land due to acquisition and conversion purposes. The existing situation is strongly affecting on Hanoi families, especially families in suburban areas. Loss of agricultural land causes unemployment, housing difficulties as well as affecting the sustainable development of family and society.

The second, the thesis proposes several solutions to impulse positive influences and prevent negative influences during the process of urbanization and implementation of family's functions in Hanoi for today. The actual development of each family is a positive contribution to stability and sustainability of society. During Hanoi urbanization, implementation of family function is occurring in both positiveness and negativeness, of which, positiveness is more than negativeness. However, implementation of family functions currently poses many challenging issues. A requirement is that the above outstanding issues need to be taken into account of leadership of the Party and the State, the local authorities, and every family and its members to raise positiveness as well as eliminate negative impact from urbanization during performance of family function in Hanoi. To do so, it is not only necessary to have a correct view, but also needs to do systematic process of urbanization and serious research on its influence on implementation of families's functions in Hanoi (especially in suburban areas). The author would like to propose five basic groups of methods of impulsing positiveness and eliminating negativeness of influence on process of urbanization in Hanoi.

12. Applicability in practice:

Based on research, analysis, and assessment of the family function performing actuality, and identification of influences of urbanization process on the implementation of family functions in Hanoi today. The thesis also provides scientific evidence for solutions to negativeness promotion and negativeness elimination of urbanization process on the implementation of family's civil functions in Hanoi. Simultaneously, the thesis is possible to be used as a documentation for studying and teaching work towards subjects of Philosophy and Sociology.