POLITICAL OPINION OF THE PEOPLE WITHIN MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY AT BANCHANG DISTRICT, RAYONG PROVINCE

Abstract

Objectives of this research article were: 1. Study the political opinions of people in multi-cultural society 2. Compare political opinions classified by personal information and 3. Study the method of Buddha-dhamma integration with political opinions of people. Methodology was the mixed methods: The quantitative research, data were collected with questionnaires and the qualitative research, data were collected by interviewing 9 key informants and analyzed by content descriptive interpretation.
Findings were as follows: 1. The level of political opinions of people in multi-cultural society was at high level, highest aspects were as: Political opinions was at 3.98, 2. The results of political opinion comparison were the people with different age, education, occupation, incomes had different political opinions, accepted the set hypothesis except people with different sex rejected the hypothesis. 3. Recommendations Political opinions; there should be use of consciences before dispatching the news. Democratic form of government; media should present the creative aspect of news, multi-culture; there should be campaign for people to be member of political party, Related Buddha-dhama there should be campaign for candidates to present themselves with knowledge and ability, Research context; state or parties concerned should give correct information to people.