44 SOCIAL SCIENTISTDIFFERENCES IN OPINION AND ATTITUDE ACCORDING TO SOCIAL ORIGIN AMONG PEASANTS OF A VIETNAMESE COMMUNE (Hai Van— 1981) Item Poor peasi origin (° wt Middle peasant /o) origin (%) Criteria/or the choice of the head of the cooperative Technical competence 55.6 75.0 Social sense 33.3 83.3 Fidelity to the directives of the Party 55.6 33.3 Criteria for choice of the head of work brigade Technical competence 41.9 66.2 Moral integrity 45.0 75.0 Social sense 32.0 66.0 Fidelity to the directives of the Party 68-0 50.0 Consciousness of the aptitude for influencing decisions in the cooperative 36.0 75.0 Social actions: to whom decision power is attributed For the organization at the cooperative level : board 61.3 47.7 : assembly 38.0 50.7 For the organization of the work at the bridgae level : the members 9.7 16.7 : the head of the team 45.2 41.7 : members and head 38.7 33 3 Possibility of discussion on the execution of work (yes) 29.0 50.0 Participation in meetings of the cooperative Regular 64.5 75.0 Irregular 29.3 8.3 Never 6.5 16.7 Opinion about the acceptance by the board of the ideas of the members 25.8 583 Perception on conflicts in the brigade Between head and members 2^.8 41.7 Between members 16.1 8.3 acquire some practices and some cultural models, mainly related to the new stage of productive forces. We are aware that such practices and cultural models may be ambiguous, because they may also increase individualistic attitudes and internalize such a sense of private property that other steps towards a land reform become extremely difficult. This was very clear in the case of the Mekong Delta. Everything depends on the totality of the social organization and on the role this solution plays in the totality. It is in this sense that we spoke about the pedagogical function of the transformation of the material basis, both because it helps to create new patterns of behaviour and new cultural models orienting the reproduction ot such behaviour and because it helps the peasant to