TAILIEUCHUNG - Lifestyle and activities of suburban people

This paper investigates lifestyle and activities of suburban people in Khon Kaen city. Qualitative methodological approach was implemented in the study with in-depth interview and non-participatory observation, which were used as research instrument. Key informants included seven labour-aged people who lived in Khon Kaen suburban village. Data analysis was done by the content analysis method. Research results found lifestyle and activites of suburban people including 1) suburban people who have a good living; they had high income, and they had many activities to do such as shopping and travelling. 2) Suburban people who have a moderate living; they had middle income. Activities they did adhered to religious practices, and they preferred to stay at home for relaxing, and went to shopping sometimes. 3) Suburban people who have a difficult living; they had low education and low income. Their activities related to survival practices such as collecting natural resource for livings. | LIFESTYLE AND ACTIVITIES OF SUBURBAN PEOPLE Prapaporn Supunya supunya_1980@ Assoc. Prof. Dr Dusadee Ayuwat dusayu@ Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Khon Kaen University Khon Kaen Thailand Abstract This paper investigates lifestyle and activities of suburban people in Khon Kaen city. Qualitative methodological approach was implemented in the study with in-depth interview and non-participatory observation which were used as research instrument. Key informants included seven labour-aged people who lived in Khon Kaen suburban village. Data analysis was done by the content analysis method. Research results found lifestyle and activites of suburban people including 1 suburban people who have a good living they had high income and they had many activities to do such as shopping and travelling. 2 Suburban people who have a moderate living they had middle income. Activities they did adhered to religious practices and they preferred to stay at home for relaxing and went to shopping sometimes. 3 Suburban people who have a difficult living they had low education and low income. Their activities related to survival practices such as collecting natural resource for livings. Keywords Activities lifestyle suburban people 1. Introduction Thailand is agriculture-based country. Mode of production of the country primarily based on subsistence mode in which most products have made for household consumption Pothisita 2012 . Natural resources has used as a main source of household production and production yield is exchanged with other households when production yield is over supplied. In the past most Thai households were poor and they lived in the countryside. Many Thai households has been living as the extended households in which several households have lived together at the same area. They help each other to conduct household production and they exchange their labour forces with neighbors. Therefore it is to say that relationship within community is .

• Xã hội học
• Suburban people
• Activities of suburban people
• Lifestyle and activities
• In depth interview
• Non participatory observation