Masters Theses - Faculty of Social Sciences
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Item මව්වරුන් විදේශගත වීම ළමා අපයෝජන කෙරෙහි ඇති කරන බලපෑම - (පඬුවස්නුවර නැගෙනහිර ප්රාදේශීය ලේකම් කොට්ඨාශය ඇසුරෙන්)(2021) Samarasinghe, D.W.O.SThe current study was focused on the impact of emigration of mothers on the child abuse of the people who live in Divisional Secretariat Division, Panduwasnuwara East. The child abuse is a social problem which is discussed often within the society. Even though there are high rules and regulation against the child abuse, in society, it is continuously happening and is an over whelming problem which is not having a permanent solution. Also any child is possible to get abused by any person at any time. Further, it can be identified as emigration of mothers is a fact which has an impact on that type of abuse. Especially, this situation is increased in rural areas and it can be identified as a “hidden crime” which is not disclosed to the society. Child abuse can be described as physically harassing a child, killing, threatening to kill or using the children for sexual satisfaction and also not giving love and affectionate for the child. Accordingly, the main problem of the current study was how the emigration of mothers can impact on child abuse while identifying the impact on child abuse was the main objective. It can be hypothesized that immigration of mothers will caused to increase the child abuse. This study was a descriptive cross sectional study and the data were collected by using a mixed method. Twenty of abused male and female children aged from 4-17 years who belong to emigrated families which included to 36 of gramaseva divisions in Divisional secretariat panduwasnuwara-East in kurunegala district, north western province selected as study population. From this study, it was able to identify that there are lot of problems within the emigrated families. Those families are endowed the abuse children for the society as a result of not having inter relationships within the family. Moreover, majority of families which having emigrated mothers were identified as “broken families” and also identified that an unprotected situation for the children is created due to emigration of their mothers. The study was concluded that the children whose mothers are emigrated, have faced to different abuses due to the problems about their guardianship.Item Information product and information service marketing in the university libraries in Sri lanaka : Investigation of issues and challenges(2020) Sewwandi, H.K.I.Libraries and information centers are not the profit-making organizations, but they are information and service providers. The concept of marketing captures not only the buying and selling for monetary purpose but also the fulfillment of organizational objectives effectively in non-profit organizations which constantly and inextricably linked to meeting its client's information needs. Marketing performances in the field of library and information science includes in planning, organizing, dissemination, and controlling of information products and services through motivational and user convenience way. As a result of marketing these organizations should be able to achieve their aims while satisfying their customers and fulfilling their information needs as well as wants. Academic libraries such as university libraries represent as a “heart” of the learning organization. However, in the literature it is reported that university libraries face many difficulties and there were many failures in providing the information sources and services to their users. It is therefore important to identify how the concept of marketing can be used in the university libraries effectively. This study therefore aims to identify the barriers and challenges faced in marketing information products and information services in university libraries in Sri Lanka. The objectives of this study are to identify information sources, information products, and information services in university libraries, to identify the current status of information product and information service marketing in university libraries and to identify strategies to use for information marketing in university libraries. The mixed research methodology has been used as a research methodology of this study while case research method has been used a research strategy. The study sample consisted of 15 state university librarians in Sri Lanka and 300 users, 20 from each university library. A total respondent of this study includes 315.Structured questionnaires were distributed to gather data for this study. Data analysis was carried out with SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences). This study identified barriers in the marketing of information products and services in university libraries such as lack of professional human resources with marketing knowledge, lack of recognition for libraries in the society/organization, ignorance of the activities of staff in one section of the library, and lack of understanding of the importance of public relations in the library. Inadequacy, lack of computer literacy among staff, readers' lack of attention to library resources, lack of a clear picture of the library in society, limited media access, lack of proper marketing policy for library management, and lack of government support are among the major challenges identified by this research Overall marketing of information products and information services in the university libraries of Sri Lanka were not at a satisfactory level. Based on the data analysis of this study, a conceptual model has been developed to use as the successful implementation of information marketing in university libraries.Item දේශීය වෛද්ය විද්යාවේ වාචික සම්ප්රදායගත ඥාන සම්ප්රේෂණය : කුරුණෑගල දිස්ත්රික්කය ඇසුරින්(2020) Herath, D. M. S. K.The foremost intention of conducting the research on “The knowledge transmission of the indigenous medicine through the oral tradition with special reference to the Kurunegala district” was to identify the role of oral tradition in transmitting the knowledge of the indigenous medicine. In addition, there were several purposes such as identifying and defining the oral tradition, identifying the nature of public consciousness on oral tradition and indigenous medicine, identifying the studying methods regard to the indigenous medicine and detecting the features of the traditional, oral methods regard to the preparation of indigenous medicine. The sample was selected only from the registered traditional specialists (physicians) in Kurunegala district, due to the limited access to an island wide basis. All these participants are superiors on the respected subject, and it was expected to achieve a fair generalization over the research. The method which has been used for the study was the ethnographic research method. There were several methods which have been used for collecting data in order to accomplish the purpose of the study including semi-structured questionnaires, supplementary interviews, and observation. The supplementary interviews were conducted with the above-mentioned selected sample in Kurunegala district. The size of the sample was not pre-defined, and data was collected through semi-structured questionnaires with the sample until the researcher arrives to the data saturation point along with the relevant process. The method which has been used to select the sample was the purposive sampling method. The researcher was able to reach the data saturation point once sharing 50 questionnaires and conducting the supplementary interviews with the same count. Therefore, the sample size can be defined as 50. Findings were verified by the data which was obtained by the secondary sources in the literature review. The key finding of the study is that the oral tradition has been played a vital role in transmitting the knowledge of indigenous medicine in the past and it is still playing a considerable role in the same aspect.Item EVALUATE THE USAGE OF E-GOVERNMENT SERVICES IN SRI LANKA: A CITIZEN’S PERSPECTIVE(2020) Dilinika, J.M. ShalaniInformation Communication Technology (ICT) has become a key factor to decide all activities in society. It has changed the shape of organizations, societies, and services across the world. According to that, information and communication technology for public administration has led the way to e-government. It makes an easy platform for citizens to find information effectively while saving its accuracy. Sri Lankan government has introduced the “E- Sri Lanka National Development” project in the year 2005 and the Sri Lanka government web portal was the central place of the same implementation. The research was focused to identify the factors that are affecting the usage of e-government services among citizens in Sri Lanka. The main objective of the study was to identify the citizens’ current usage of e-government applications in Sri Lanka. The sample of the study includes internet users of Sri Lanka and the sample consisted of 384 individuals. Both qualitative and quantitative methods have been employed in this research and data was gathered by distributing printed and online questionnaires. The result of the study shows that usage of e-government service was not at a satisfactory level and awareness of e-government service had a direct impact on its usage. Moreover, lack of performance expectancy, effort expectancy, facilitating conditions and citizens' attitudes also had a direct impact on the usage of e-government services. The study was able to identify major challenges for citizen participation in egovernment services such as the absence of proper awareness, trust, insufficient infrastructure, information literacy skills, slow internet connections and attitude based issues. In this context, the study proposes three types of suggestions which can be categorized into citizens’ related suggestions, technical suggestions, and organization related suggestions . E.g.: Conducting systematic awareness programs and workshops, re-engineering e-government web portal, improve computer literacy skills and improve service quality to build positive attitudes on e-government services. Conclusively it was evident that e-government services can be further developed in the context of Sri Lanka to get the maximum utilization among citizens.