Abstract:
The role of undergraduate students in politics: a case study of students at the
Faculty of Political science and Law, Burapha University. The objective is to study the
level of political role of undergraduate students in the Faculty of Political Science and Law, Burapha University. Faculty of Polical Science and Law, Burapha University.
The study was conducted usine a sample of 338 people using an online questionnaire as a data collection tool. The statistics used in data analysis were percentage, mean, and standard deviation. The hypothesis was tested using t-test and One-way ANOVA.
The study results found that most of the respondents were females more than
males. Most of them were between 20-21 years old, studying in the Department of
Political Science, 2nd year, and were domiciled in the Eastern region (45.27 percent).
From the analysis of attitudes on political roles of students in the Faculty of Political
Science and Law, Burapha University, consisting of 6 aspects, it was found that the aspect of exercising the right to vote had the highest political role at a high level = 3.99), followed by the aspect of following up and/or communicating information and news, having a high political role (X = 3.84), the aspect of participating in campaigns and protests, having a moderate political role (X 2.71), the aspect of public work, having a low polical role (X = 2.45), the aspect of resisting communication and coordination, having a low political role (X = 2.18), and the aspect of acting as a party official, having a low polical role (X = 2.10), respectively. In addition, it was found that the results of the study on the aspect of exercising the right to vote and the aspect of following up and/or communicating information and news were important to the political role at the national level a high level. Participation in campaigns and protests is moderately important to the university political role. The roles of party officials, public service, and coordination are lowly
important to the university political role.