The objectives of this research are : 1 ) to study the level of Thai Raman people’s opinion of the Buddhist monks’ role in continuing Thai Raman culture in Samutsakhon Province, 2) to compare the Thai Raman people’s opinion of Buddhist monks’ role in Continuing Thai Raman Culture in Samutsakhon Province, being separated in individual factors and 3) to study the problems, obstacles and suggestions of Thai Raman people’s opinion of the Buddhist monks’ role in Continuing Thai Raman Culture in Samutsakhon Province. The research methodology used in the research was the Mixed Method Research consisting of 1) Quantitative Research of which the data were collected by using the questionnaire and studied from the sampling group of 320 Thai Raman people in Samutsakhon province. The instrument used in data collection was questionnaire which divided into three sections: The section 1 would be concerned with the questionnaire for collecting the general data of questionnaire answerers. The section 2 would be concerned with the questionnaire of Thai Raman people’s opinion of the Buddhist monks’ role in Continuing Thai Raman Culture in Samutsakhon Province. The section 3 would be concerned with the questionnaire of the problems, obataclrs and suggestions of the Buddhist monks’ role in Continuing The Thai Raman Culture in Samutsakhon Province. the data were analyzed by evaluating the frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation. Testing T-test and F- test was made by the way of One way ANOVA analysis of variance, Testing the difference of the mean in pair made by the way of the Least Significant Difference ( LSD ) , 2) Qualitative Research of which the data were collected by interviewing 5 people related with the content.
From the result of this research, it has been found that
1. The level of Thai Raman people’s opinion of the Buddhist monks’ role in Continuing the Thai Raman Culture in Samutsakhon Province, has been found that in a whole, it was at the high level.
2. In the comparative analysis of Thai Raman people’s opinion of the Buddhist monks’ role in Continuing the Thai Raman Culture in Samutsakhon Province, being separated in individual status, as a whole, for the Thai Raman people whose gender, status, educational qualification and occupation were different, their opinion of the Buddhist monks’ role in Continuing the Thai Raman Culture in Samutsakhon Province was not different, hereby, the set hypothesis was rejected. For the Thai Raman people whose age and income were different, their opinion of the Buddhist monks’ role in Continuing the Thai Raman Culture in Samutsakhon Province was different with statistical significance at the level 0.05, hereby, the set hypothesis was accepted.
3. The problems of the Buddhist monks’ role in Continuing the Thai Raman Culture in Samutsakhon Province were that in the aspect of the promotion of using Mon language for communication in daily life, the Thai Raman people seldom used it and Buddhist monks hardly took the role or participation in promoting the way of life in Tai-Raman style
In the result of interview, it has been found that the Buddhist monks were important to the Buddhist monks’ role in Continuing the Thai Raman Culture, they were the original models for conservation of language, custom, tradition and culture, religious faith and the way of living.
The suggestions on the Buddhist monks’ role in Continuing the Thai Raman Culture in Samutsakhon Province were; the promotion of using Mon language to Thai Raman people should be done and the Buddhist monks should pay their role and participation in promoting the way if living in the Thai- Raman style. |