Abstract
This chapter examines continuities and discontinuities in local-level social organization and culture through a comparison of village culture in society prior to 1975, reformulations of local life attempted in Democratic Kampuchea (DK), and situation in People's Republic of Kampuchea (PRK). With dissolution of DK communes, another major development in People's Republic of Kampuchea was reconstitution of family as a social unit. The People's Republic of Kampuchea has not only permitted but actively supported private household production, called the family economy, as a necessary supplement to communal organization. In Democratic Kampuchea, however, various measures, new forms of organization, and revolutionary ideology served to weaken greatly family and, by extension, broader kinship bonds. The old system of stratification was replaced, however, by new social distinctions that often affected an individual's placement and treatment in new order.
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