The Presentation Experiment, the History of Social Movements: Crisis and Relations of Groups and Class in Phayao Province

Abstract

This academic article wants to present a study about the history of social movements from a new point of view, by presenting dynamics movements of relations between groups and class that originated from social crises in the context of historical change. This article uses Phayao province as a case study, using various types of academic documents and literature in both the national tier and in Phayao to descriptive analysis of phenomena. This study points out the history of social movements in Phayao from B.C. 2500-2550, which has the crisis's that happened in various time periods, including debt and poverty, prostitution and labor trafficking, resource and environmental crisis's and conflicts between political ideologies, in that order. These crisis's are also related to state expansion, structural changing and expansion of the economy, society and politics in national level and in Phayao. This study wants to present that these crisis's in the context of Phayao history, causes the formation and split of various class and groups. Which puts ideological development sets in practices. Nonetheless, crisis's that contributed to changes in Phayao history, causes the practice changes of various groups, and also causes new complicated relationships management of groups and class.