Culture and Communication in Thailand (Communication, Culture and Change in Asia)

Third World. Western capitalist patriarchy cannot be achieved without maintaining the oppression and exploitation of women by me ...

Most male and female students under study think that rape cases occur because young women wear too sexy clothes. When asked why ...

According to the Website rabbit daily ( 2016 ), ten popular drama series are all about the male main characters raping the femal ...

females are shy, dare not express their sexuality in conformity with the mainstream discourse that good females must keep their ...

popular newspapers. Selling cars or selling beer needs young women in sexy clothes to present the goods. Also social organizatio ...

Kawanami, H. (1996). Women in buddhism revisited. In T. Cosslett, A. Easton, & P. Summerfield (Eds.),Women, power and resist ...

Chapter 4 A Village in the Jungle: Culture and Communication in Thailand Abstract This article provides analytical components of ...

Especially during the reigns of King Chulalongkorn or Rama V (1868–1910), King Vajiravudh or Rama VI (1910–1925), and the regime ...

In other words, in the study of concrete examples of cultural identity, one must be attentive to the following aspects: (a) the ...

in turn on an individual’s relationship to blood or by service to the king. The closeness of that relationship had to be ranked ...

regarded in the inner-group, are of a far lesser importance in the world of the outer-group. There, the so-called law of the jun ...

elsewhere, no higher legitimation exists. Therefore, different powers can exercise opposing influences and thwart the fulfillmen ...

But as, in my opinion, the Thai’s common beliefs are more of an animistic than a Buddhist nature, the Thai is more oriented towa ...

powers. Also Davis ( 1993 :35) argues that Thai religion has three components or subsystems, comprising Therevada Buddhism, Brah ...

animism is more appropriate. Contacts with people in the power circles are business-like, formal, and instrumental. To engage on ...

representative of power on the other hand is calledkrengklua(to respect out of fear). The meaning behind certain actions can dif ...

“incomprehensible” to the Western world, are described in Holmes and Tangtongtavy ( 1995 ), Klausner ( 1997 ), Knutson et al. ( ...

have tended to decay...The rise of corruption as an issue was more a function of increasing competition for political power and ...

by absorbing elements from other social groups who then operate within the established framework”(Girling 1984 : 445). He conten ...

avoidance, (c) power distance, (d) masculinity and femininity, (e) long- or short-term orientation, and (f) an activity orientat ...