From Patron-Client Relationship to Friendship Relations: Emotions and Family Life of Thai Middle Class from the 1960s – the 1980
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The patron-client relationship is the traditional form of Thai family relations. The man as the head of the family must be the ruler, sustainer, protector, and supporter of the many members within the family. The members of these families do not need to be bound together by blood only but also include the distant relatives and the servants in the family as well.
This essay attempts to indicate that the economic transformation influenced by the national development policy since the 1960s has a particularly strong impact on the change of Thai family relations. The growth of the industrial and service sector has led many Thai men and women to become salarymen. They grew up into a self-reliant middle-class and became more aware of their own individual value. Moreover, this new economic life allowed them to redefine a new kind of love in which they and their partners need to accept and respect each other’s individuality. In addition, they created a new family that was separated from the traditional form of family. In other words, they created a single family with a small number of members. Family relations became more reliance on friendship relationship than the economic relationship of the patron family form.
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