ABSTRACT
This work attempted to investigate how the changes from traditional agricultural society to industrializing one affected the kinship/family system of the Ideato people particularly the Urualla Community. As an agrarian society, the Ideato people live together; share their existence collectively in large descent groups and extended families. Communal land including forest resources, the hallmark of their survival and existence, hence the close and affectionate kinship bond among relatives and family members. This situation was found to have changed as people engaged in paid (wage) employment and were living separate from their families several miles away in satellites or urban centers, kinship bonds began to weaken as people now tended to concentrate on solving their own personal problems and those of their immediate family wife, husband or children. In this research, 200 people were sampled. It was realized that the role of the family has changed because of the effects of modernization which have expanded social cultural, economic, political, moral and ethical obligations and responsibility of the family with a reciprocal benefit to support it, hence the weakening of the kinship ties in contemporary times even the extended family remains the bedrock of the African family system.
TABLE CONTENT
CHAPTER ONE.. 1
INTRODUCTION.. 1
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY. 1
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM.. 4
1.3 RESEARCH QUESTIONS. 6
1.4 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY. 7
1.5 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY. 8
1.6 DEFINITIONS OF TERMS. 9
CHAPTER TWO.. 11
LITERATURE REVIEW.. 11
2.1 REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE. 11
2.2 CONCEPT OF FAMILY. 11
2.3 CONCEPT OF KINSHIP. 12
2.4 KINSHIP AND FAMILY RELATIONS IN CULTURAL SETTING. 14
2.5 INHERITANCE AND SUCCESSION PRACTICES. 19
2.6 REVIEW OF RELATED THEORIES. 30
2.7 CONVERGENCE HYPOTHESIS. 36
CHAPTER THREE.. 39
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY.. 39
3.1 RESEARCH DESIGN.. 39
3.2 STUDY AREA.. 39
3.3 SCOPE OF STUDY. 40
3.4 POPULATION OF THE STUDY. 40
3.5 SAMPLE SIZE.. 41
3.6 SAMPLE TECHNIQUE.. 42
3.7 INSTRUMENT FOR THE DATA COLLECTION.. 42
3.8 VALIDITY OF THE INSTRUMENT.. 43
3.9 RELIABILITY OF THE INSTRUMENTS.. 43
CHAPTER FOUR.. 44
DATA ANALYSIS.. 44
4.1 SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS OFR ESPONDENTS. 44
4.2 THEMATIC ANALYSIS. 48
CHAPTER FIVE.. 54
CONCLUTION AND RECOMMENDATION.. 54
5.1 SUMMARYOF FINDING.. 54
5.2 DISCUSSION OF FINDINGS. 55
5.3 CONCLUSION..
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