Social Quality and Democratic Citizenship’ Students of Rajabhat Maha Sarakham University

Abstract

A study of social quality and citizenship of Mahasarakham Rajabhat University students. 1) to study the citizenship of Mahasarakham Rajabhat University students; 2)to study the social quality factors related to the citizenship of Mahasarakham Rajabhat University students; and 3) to propose the development of citizenship. Of students of Mahasarakham Rajabhat University By using quantitative research. The questionnaire was used as a tool to collect data. The results are as follows. Most of the sample were female (62.5%), respondents aged between 19 - 20 years (43.7%), all of sample were students who under faculty of Humanities and Social Science (42.0%) by being the first year students (38.0%) and has earning income between 6,001 - 10,000 (52.5%).

The level of student citizenship in Mahasarakham Rajabhat University was low (mean 2.85, standard deviation 0.857). The factor of social quality has correlation with students’ democratic citizen by hypothesis and the results of the hypothesis testing with Chi-square are presented in the form of cross tabulation. 3 Assumptions: 1) The variables of social solidarity with the variables of student citizenship were statistically significant at the 0.05 level. 2) The variables of social capital and the variables of student citizenship were statistically significant at the 0.05 level. 3) The variables of social network construction and the students' degree of citizenship were statistically significant at the 0.05 level.

          The development of citizenship through the use of social quality factors: 1) The principle of creating good relationships among students. 2) Principles of conflict resolution in the interests. 3) Principles of ideology and values in the field of diligence. Patience, cooperation, integrity and self-reliance. 4) Continuing education on citizenship encourages students to have the knowledge and ideas to help them become more self-confident in their citizenship. 5) Teamwork can be used to seek cooperation in the development of social awareness of students.