Social Differentiation and Inequalities - Methodological and Cross-cutting Approaches to Questions of Gender and Ethnicity - Regional Social Sciences Summer University, "Tam Dao Summer School Week" (Vietnam), July 2011

The Việt Nam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS), the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Nantes University, the École française d’Extrême-Orient (ÉFEO) and the Agence universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) have decided to support the social sciences summer university called “Tam Đảo Summer School Week” as part of a partnership agreement for the period 2010-2013. The objectives of this partnership are to develop multidisciplinary training of an excellent standard, to create a policy discussion platform and to attract a large academic and non-academic audience from the entire Southeast Asian region. This book is a verbatim transcription of the presentations and debates during the plenary sessions and workshops held from July 15 to 23, 2011 in Hà Nội and in the hill station of Tam Đảo on the issue of differentiation and social inequalities, with a particular focus on questions of gender and ethnicity. Four main axes of reflection were highlighted in thematic workshops: i) ethnic and gender discrimination: measurement and methods of breaking down data; ii) biographies: from quantitative survey to analysis; iii) construction and management of ethnicities in Southeast Asia; iv) field study methods in socio-economics and in anthropology.