It's basically about:
1. Factors of Difficulties in Resocialization to Prison Life
2. The main reason of divorce in Malaysia
3. Journal review of "Work-care balance among parents-workers in Malaysian urban organizations: Role and quality of children’s day care centres”.
2. Total Institution
∞ Erving Goffman
∞ Isolated, enclosed social system
∞ Regulates all aspects of a person’s
life under a single authority
∞ Prison, mental hospital, military
training camp
3. Resocialization
Process of tearing down & rebuilding
individual’s role
Existing role : alter & replace
Socially constructed sense of self
4. Factors of Difficulties
in Resocialization to Prison Life
No freedom
Unfamiliar environment
Less contact with family
Separated from social world
5. No freedom
limited place
follow rules
cannot make decision
cannot give opinion
limited time to rest
fulfill the schedule activities
12. Point of Views & Perspectives
• Gender roles X Traditional thinking
• Husband works , wife -> housewife
• Women pursuit career, higher in income and
knowledge
19. The wife earns more
than the husband.
The male feels weak.
Divorce…
20. Locations
o Couples live in different places-work.
o Less time spent together.
o Actress Erra Fazira and Engku Emran’s divorce
21. Goals of Life…
• One is happy with a simple
life.
• Another wants luxurious life.
22. Journal Review
Title: Work-care balance among parents-
workers in Malaysian urban
organizations: Role and quality of
children’s day care centres”.
Task:
– Summary of journal article.
– Personal comments or assessments on the
strengths and weaknesses of the research.
23. • What are parents-workers’ attitudes in sending
children to daycare centers?
• Will parents feel indifferent in their decision &
action as long as their children are being cared by
others while they are working?
• Do in-house domestic helpers helped parents
sufficiently enough?
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26. • Method
Survey questionnaire
22 questions
Answers ranging from 4 (strongly agree) to 1 (strongly
disagree)
• Measurement
2 page questionnaire divided into 2 sections
Section A - demographic part
Section B - a set of Likert Scale
27. • Sample
SIZE
558 parents
CRITERIA
Parent or guardian to a child between 0-18 year old
Work for a living
SELECTION
List down numbers of children’s daycare centers and
tuition centers around Cheras, Gombak and Shah Alam
Obtain from site & internet searching
28. FILL questionnaire & scale of parental expectation
for children’s early education & personal option
towards sending children to children’s daycare
centers
TRANSLATE scale into 2 languages
English
Bahasa Malaysia
29. • Ethical consideration
A system of ethical protections
Protect rights of research participants
Voluntary participation required informed consent
Fully informed about research procedures & risks
Give consent to participate
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31. • Demographic variables
Gender/sex ▪ Marital status
Type of parents ▪ Ethnicity
Religion ▪ Number of children
Monthly income ▪ Working sectors
• Factors & attitudes in sending children to children daycare
centers
Distance between daycare centers from home & cost/fee
Shows a convenient attitude
Concern with internal & controllable factors
Continuous dilemma
Extinct of extended family system
Need for dual-earning income families
32. • Prefer daycare centers instead of in-house helpers
• 70% think that in-house helpers will cause more
problems
• Prefer children’s daycare centers to have 24-7 services
including weekend & public holiday
Not worrying about children
Able to take care and provide education to children
33. • 90% think it is important to have a good
relationship between parents-workers &
employers
Childcare is the responsibility of both parents-workers
& employer
Support idea of employers’ subsidization scheme
Improve facilities and equipment of daycare centers.
Have different time zone
Maximize needs of parents
34. Combination of theories that are linked together
& have a strong relevance to this research
• Ecological System Theory
• Family System Theory
• Rational Choice Theory
• Social-network Theory
Demographic data & geographical data
35. Survey form
• Convenient
• Receive feedbacks
• More accurate
• Specific measurement
“Neither agree nor disagree” & “Neutral” is not
made available
Specific answers
Ethical consideration
• Not forcing people to participate
36. Weakness
× Geographical data
• Focus only on 3 parts of Selangor
Cheras, Shah Alam & Gombak
× Hasty Generalization
• Did survey with 558 Malaysians
• Assume them as the entire Malaysian citizens