ISSN: 2265-6294

Change and Complexity Institutionalism: The perspective of Institutional logics in the Child-rearing field

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Phichai Ratnatilaka Na Bhuket,Thannaphat Khotsing

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This study aims to investigate the parental behaviors of children's households and to discover the institutional logic prevalent in the child raising field. This was a qualitative study, with data gathered through in-depth interviews. The target group consists of 18 preschool children’s families in the Cha-am District, Phetchaburi Province, Thailand. The Atlas.ti program was used for content analysis. The interpretation was defined in accordance with the institutional logic perspective. The results found that each institutional logic comprised a collection of cognitions, beliefs, and practices. Children's families used four kinds of logic to raise their children: professional logic, market logic, community logic, and family logic. The reason for this combination is that, through historical processes and decision-making, institutional logic is complicated. To engage the activity on an individual level and represent the current set of social practices, selection, combining, and adaptation of both consistent and contradictory information sets were performed. The institutional ideal-type framework in the child raising field can be utilized as a theoretical instrument to examine different topics, whether in a qualitative or quantitative study, in the examination of other social phenomena, or by altering the target group of the investigation, whether in Thai social life or in other nations. As a consequence of this revelation, the power of institutional logic's explanation in sociology will rise in the area of childrearing.

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