June 2014 Vol. 2 No.6

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Original Research Article

The Change to Modernization and the Sustainable People in Maha Sarakham Province

Sitthiporn Soonthorn*, Watcharin Suttisai, Sakphong Homhuan, and Annop Phothisuk

Department of Public Administration in Local Government, College of Law and Government, Rajabhat Maha Sarakham University, Thailand

*Corresponding Author's E-mail: Soonthorn_rmu@hotmail.com

Accepted May 19, 2014

Abstract

To investigate and exemplify formats onto modernization and sustainable of people in Maha Sarakham province in Thailand with a sample size of the three groups of age development, Havighurst’s thinking, and Snowball sampling of community acceptances data whereas the new buildings of two universities and the city hall were administered. Qualitative method with the In-depth of Interview and Observation techniques to formal and informal purposive samplings at the extra document and the fieldwork was used and described. The motorization of original people who used to live at the hill with a small village and relative living style, generousness activities, Buddhist and holy thing believable were changed after this location was destroyed and built of new buildings. The new communities were to improve and adapt of their behaviors to their economic, industrial, and business that they were sold of their assets onto the capitalist groups whose have been expanded on benefits cover this local area. Most of people are supported with a new community to their folk wisdoms for making new earn living with application of modern technology and product of enterprise community. In term of communities’ social, politic, and public administration, too fast of external communities’ social, lower communities’ organizational commitment and generousness, in the other hand, people who know about democracy system, good ergodic and identity to apply of their principal cast to their way of lifes were changed. Focused on their natural source and environment, the local style’s houses have been changed to the apartments or modern building styles or housing developments, globalizing processes are affected by business and work organizations, economics, socio-cultural resources, and the natural environments; too less rice field, decreasing community forest and water head are destroyed, air and environmental pollutions’ problems increasingly, communities were changed to feeble, reforestation without planting. The changes to modernization and the sustainable people in Maha Sarakham province is taken the modern technology and made the original knowledge for applying their believable and unity homogeneously and strongly to their location with their conscious and supported participant of the way of life to changes of motorization parallel.

Keywords: Change to Modernization, sustainable people, Maha Sarakham province