VIETNAM ACADEMY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
GRADUATE ACADEMY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

CHU XUAN HAI

FOSTERING BEHAVIORAL CULTURE FOR YOUNG
PEOPLE IN THE VIETNAMESE PEOPLE'S ARMY

Major: Dialectical materialism and historical
materialism
Code: 92 29 002

SUMMARY OF DOCTORAL THESIS IN PHILOSOPHY

HANOI - 2019


This research is conducted in:
GRADUATE ACADEMY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
Supervisors::
1. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Phung Van Thiet
2. Dr. Dao Huy Tin

Reviewer 1: Assoc. Prof. Dr.Le Van Cuong
Reviewer 2: Doctors, Prof.Dr Nguyen Van Huyen
Reviewer 3: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Trong Tuan

This thesis shall be under defensed before the Thesis
Examination Board at the academy level, at Graduate Academy
of Social Sciences
At


political

commissars and commanders have not paid due attention, lack of
positivity, activeness and creativity in innovating the content,
methods and forms of fostering behavioral culture for young
people. Besides, some young people are not really active in selflearning and self-training to improve their behavioral culture.
Therefore, fostering behavioral culture for young people
in the Vietnamese People's Army to meet the task requirements is


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both a basic and urgent issue that needs to be realized and
implemented on a scientific and practical basis. Concerning this
issue, there have been many research projects that clarified the
theory and practice, but so far no project has been studied in
depth from a basically and systematically philosophical
perspective of fostering behavioral culture for young people in
the Vietnamese People's Army.
Therefore, the author selected the issue of "Fostering
behavioral culture for young people in the Vietnamese People's
Army" as his/her research topic.
2. Purposes and research tasks of the thesis
2.1. Purposes
Approaching in the philosophical aspect, the thesis
clarifies the theoretical and practical issues of fostering behavioral
culture for young people in the Vietnamese People's Army;
pointing out requirements and proposing basic solutions to
supplement, strengthen and develop the behavioral culture for
young people in the Vietnamese People's Army to meet

and historical materialism...
Scope of survey: through the annual review and evaluation
reports of the Military Youth Committee, agencies and units and
through actual surveys in a number of units and military schools in
the Northern region from 2010 to present.


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4. Theoretical and practical basis and research
methods of the thesis
4.1. Theoretical and practical basis
Theoretical basis of the thesis is the system of views of
Marxism-Leninism, Ho Chi Minh's thought, the lines and views
of the Party, State, Central Military Commission, Ministry of
Defense and General Department of Politics on culture,
development and construction of cultural life. At the same time,
the thesis also inherits the research results of the groups and
individuals inside and outside the military on issues related to
the topic.
The main practical basis of the thesis is the actual
situation of fostering behavioral culture for young people in the
Vietnamese People's Army from 2010 up to now, through the
reports on summarizing and evaluating of the Military Youth
Committee and agencies, unit; combined with the processing and
selection of the results of the check and actual survey of the
author in a number of units and military schools in the Northern
region.
4.2. Research methods
The thesis uses the methodology of the dialectical
materialism and historical materialism; in addition, the thesis

The research results of the thesis provide more scientific,
practical and theoretical basis for raising the awareness of
subjects on fostering behavioral culture for young people in the
Vietnamese People's Army; for the determination of contents and
measures to foster the behavioral culture for young people in the
Vietnamese People's Army of leaders and commanders of units;
for contributing to improving the efficiency of fostering
cultural behavior and level of behavioral culture of young
people to meet the requirements and tasks in the new situation.
The thesis can be used as reference in scientific research
and political, cultural and ethical education in military units.


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7. Structure of the thesis
In addition to the introduction, conclusion and list of
references and appendices, the thesis content consists of 4 chapters
and 11 periods.
Chapter 1
OVERVIEW OF RESEARCH TOPICS
Behavioral culture and fostering behavioral culture for
young people in the Vietnamese People's Army are much
interested in research and interpretation in many different
perspectives.
Studies of military culture and culture
Studies on behavioral culture and behavioral culture of the
Vietnamese People's Army
The basic results and issues that the thesis needs to continue
to solve


aspirations to live of human towards Truthfulness-HonestyBeauty. Therefore, culture with its true meaning is a conscious
mode of human activity, a system of material and spiritual
values created by human, in which "the system of viewpoints,
ideologies, arguments, politics, laws, ethics, aesthetics, religion
and philosophy plays a coherent role, orienting the cultural
circles. ”


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Behavior, in a broad sense, is the reaction of people to
the impact of externalities (nature, society and surrounding
people). Behavior is a reaction that selects and calculates on the
basis of knowledge, experience, living experience and
personality of each person in order to achieve the highest
results in communication. Thus, behavior is the living attitude.
That attitude was formed and developed in the intentional
receptive process - observation, receipt and brood.
Behavioral culture is the reaction of a subject to the
impact of another subject or an object in a certain way, in order
to achieve the best result. In which, "culture" and "behavior"
are closely intertwined. Culture is the foundation and, at the
same time being expressed through behavior, and behavior is a
requirement and, at the same time, a mode of existence of
culture.
Second, on the nature and level of expression,
behavioral culture is the aspect of culture - it is culture
expressed in communication by actual action.
From the above analysis, it can be conveived that:
Behavioral culture is an aspect of culture, reflecting
and expressing the standard level and nature in people's



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people, issues and it directly expresses their behavior in
communication.
2.1.2. Behavioral culture for young people in the
Vietnamese People’s Army
As a typical object, "young pople" operating in a
specific field, "military activity field", need to format the
behavioral culture for young people in the Vietnamese People’s
Army with their own characteristics, allowing relative
segregation of behavioral culture of this object.
Accordingly, we can conceive: the behavioral culture
for young people in the Vietnamese People’s Army is an aspect
of behavioral culture, reflecting the specificity of the system of
standard values as well as the attitude and behavior of young
people in the military, in accordance with the requirements of
military operations in different historical periods.
The above notion shows that the behavioral culture of
young people in the Vietnam People's Army has a common
point, unified with the behavioral culture of Vietnamese young
people, and its specific characteristics of the requirements of
the field and the operating environment. That peculiarity is
expressed in the following basic characteristics:
The first characteristic, the standard value system of
the behavioral culture of young people in the Vietnam People's
Army is the Vietnamese military culture system, which is at the
core of the culture of "Uncle Ho's soldiers".



the state; The Vietnam People's Army’s glorious, heroic
tradition
The behavioral attitudes of young people in the
Vietnamese People's Army is their willingness in terms of
thoughts, feelings, beliefs, their choices to react to situations in
their tasks, lives and behaviors to successfully solve those
situations.
The behaviors of behavioral behavior of young people
in the Vietnamese People’s Army is a high level of self-


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discipline in implementing a code of conduct in military
activities. It is expressed in their response, their behavior
according to the political objectives, cultural norms of state
law, military discipline, voluntarily, unanimously, without
criticism
Behavioral culture for young people in the Vietnamese
People’s Army is expressed in their practical activities, in
speech and behavioral attitude.
2.2. The nature of fostering behavioral culture for
young people in the Vietnamese People’s Army
2.2.1 Concept of fostering behavioral culture for
young people in the Vietnamese People’s Army
Young people in the Vietnamese People's Army is
conceived as young people in the army, aged from 18 to 30.
They are officers and professional soldiers of the age of the
Youth Union and the entire non-commissioned officers. Young
people in the Army is the core force, the majority force of the
Vietnam People's Army. They are the ones who directly

the whole of conscious and purposeful impacts of the subject in
a voluntary way to supplement, consolidate and improve
knowledge, attitude and behavior level of young people in the
Vietnamese People’s Army in order to meet the objectives of


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requirement of military activities in each certain historical
period.
The purpose of fostering the behavioral culture for
young people in the Vietnamese People’s Army is the overall
self-consious impact according to the development rules of the
subject's culture in order to supplement the missing ones;
reinforce the unstable, immature and imperfect elements of
cultural knowledge, attitudes and behaviors to meet the
requirements of military activities.
In essence, fostering the behavioral culture for young
people in the Vietnamese People’s Army is the process of
transforming the standard of cultural behavioral culture of
society and the military field into cultural knowledge, attitudes
and behavior of young people in the revolutionary, regular
army youth. In fact, activities of fostering behavioral culture of
young people in the Vietnamese People’s Army are a process
of positive, voluntary, dynamic and creative impacts of
subjects. With many ways of organizing different impacts,
closely linked with each other, based on the correct awareness
of the general rules and specific characteristics of the
formation, behavioral culture for young people in the
Vietnamese People’s Army is developed.
Objects of fostering the behavioral culture for young

specific military environment.
Chapter 3
THE CURRENT SITUATION AND REQUIREMENTS
SET IN FOSTERING BEHAVIORAL CULTURE FOR
YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE VIETNAMESE PEOPLE’S
ARMY TODAY
3.1. Current situation of fostering behavioral culture
for young people in the Vietnamese People's Army today
Based on the research results in both theory and
practice, the topic generalizes the advantages, limitations and
causes of advantages and limitations in fostering behavioral
culture for young people in the Vietnamese People’s Army in
agencies and units today as follows:
Advantages
Most of the subjects have been quite aware of the
behavioral culture and fostering behavioral culture for young
people in the Vietnamese People’s Army to improve the quality
of "revolutionary, formal, elite and modern step by step"
military construction.
Regarding the content, forms and measures of fostering
behavioral culture for young people in the Vietnamese People’s
Army in the agencies and units, it is relatively close to the
requirements and tasks of the Army and the practice.


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Most of young people in the Vietnamese People’s Army
have the right motive, high responsibility in studying,
cultivating and practicing behavioral culture. Most of them
have good personality, worthy of "Uncle Ho's soldiers".

Firstly, fostering the behavioral culture for young
people in the Vietnamese People’s Army today must promote
the role of the subjects.
Secondly, fostering the behavioral culture for young
people in the Vietnamese People’s Army today must develop
comprehensively the elements of behavioral culture, especially
taking serious consideration of fostering, training cultural
attitudes, behaviors.
Thirdly, fostering behavioral culture for young people
in the Vietnamese People’s Army must be associated with
building a healthy military cultural environment.
Chapter 4
BASIC SOLUTION IN FOSTERING BEHAVIORAL
CULTURE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE
VIETNAMESE PEOPLE’S ARMY TODAY


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4.1. Promote the role and responsibility of the subjects
in fostering behavioral culture for young people in the
Vietnamese People’s Army today.
4.2. Continue to innovate the content, forms and methods of
fostering behavioral culture for young people in the Vietnamese
People’s Army today.
4.3. Build a healthy military cultural environment at the
base unit of the Vietnamese People's Army.


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CONCLUSION