การขัดเกลาจริยธรรมของเยาวชน : ศึกษาเปรียบเทียบผู้ที่เข้าเรียนและไม่เข้าเรียนโรงเรียนพุทธศาสนาวันอาทิตย์ ณ วัดมหาธาตุยุวราชรังสฤษฎิ์ ราชวรมหาวิหาร กรุงเทพมหานคร / ฝนทิพย์ โพธิวิรัตนานนท์ = Socialization of youths' morality : a comparative study of enrolled and non-enrolled students in sunday Buddhist school at Wat Mahathatyuwarajarangsarit Rajaworamahawihara, Bangkok / Fontip Potiviratananon
This study aims to explore the role of social institutions in the contemporary process of socialisation of youths’ morality and their ethical characteristics. The study investigates through a comparative study of enrolled and non-enrolled students in the Sunday Buddhist School Two main groups of research sample are were the enrolled and non-enrolled students of the age between 14-18 years old. The other sample groups are those who have close relationship with those two main samples including their parents, school teachers, monk teachers in the Sunday Buddhist School, monks at temples which the samples usually participate in religious activities, and school friends. Hence, there are totally 260 respondents involving in the investigation which was conducted by using questionnaires and in-depth interview technique. The study illustrates that the social institutions which influences socialisation of youths’ morality and youths’ ethical characteristics are family, educational institution, mass media, groups of friends and religious institution, respectively. However, each institution provides both directly and indirectly ways of socialisation depending on its roles and functions in the process of socialisation. The study also clarifies that the involving social institutions of the youths prefer the ethic of sacrifice and kindness as their first priority, while the rests are discipline, responsibility, diligence, honesty, gratefulness, harmony, economisation and reasoning, respectively. In fact, the socialization of youth’s morality among the groups of involving social institutions has depended generally on social change and their discretion on which things are appropriate or inappropriate to conduct. Comparatively, the level of the 9 ethical characteristics of the enrolled students in the Sunday Buddhist School is higher than those of the non-enrolled students. However, when each ethic is investigated in details, the enrolled students have higher level of responsibility, honesty, reasoning, gratefulness, sacrificing, harmony, and diligence, correspondingly than those of the non-enrolled students, On the contrary, the non-enrolled students have correspondingly higher level in the ethics of discipline and economisation than those of the enrolled students.
