Synthesis of Thailand’s Inequality Research In English Between 1957-2018
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The purposes of this research were to compile research on inequality in English-language documents about Thailand and to analyze and synthesize research content on inequality of Thailand from 4 databases which are ThaiLIS (Thai Library Integration System), ThaiJo (Thai Journals Online), EconPapers and Google Scholar. This article will focus only on English published works between 1957 and 2018. The research was applied qualitative research methodologies by using the Qualitative Content Analysis (QCA) technique. In this research, samplings were recruited by 414 English-language documents and use of NViVo software as a content analysis tool. Findings from English documents confirmed the assumption that the paradigm of economics was the main paradigm which scholars used or applied to study inequality. The next issue was of the research method in the study of inequality in English literatures. At the beginning of the inequality research, scholars mostly applied economic models and econometrics. Later, when the paradigm of the social sciences grew, the research method became more diverse. Consequently, the proportion of documents using qualitative or quantitative method has increased. The third point of the findings is the reproductive mechanism which drives inequality. The authors of the English documents began to question the nature of the repeated cycle of inequality in Thai society. This speculation caused these researchers to scrutinize the cause of inequality. The last point of the research was delivering the proposals to solve inequality. Overall, the researcher found that scholars tend to focus on tangible and measurable approaches when creating proposals to solve inequality situations. The research paper contributions were (1) to provide an overview of the study of inequality in Thailand has been written in English over the past 62 years (1957-2018) and (2) to help researchers fil the literature gaps as its analysis of the documents’ content on inequality in the English language.
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