This book focuses on the analysis of institutionalized civil society subjects - groups with a certain degree of organization, membership or permanent staff, relative independence, and philanthropy. The authors believe that going into describing and analyzing the characteristics of these organizations in civil society space will give policy makers, scholars, and the public a general and systematic overview of this concept. The book consists of 6 main parts: 1. Sketching the history of civic society thought and the Vietnamese context; 2. Classification of social institutions in Vietnam; 3. The relationship between the state and social institutions in Vietnam; 4. The role of public mass organizations in the area of Vietnamese citizen society; 5. Structure and efficiency of attracting social resources; 6. The role of social institutions for other institutions in Vietnam.