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Title: | Ethnicity and Attitudes Toward Development in Eastern Nigeria |
Authors: | Smock, A.C. Smock, David R. |
Year: | 1969 |
Periodical: | Journal of Developing Areas |
Volume: | 3 |
Issue: | 4 |
Period: | July |
Pages: | 499-512 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Nigeria |
Subjects: | work attitudes ethnicity Ethnic and Race Relations Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Development and Technology Economics and Trade |
External links: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/4189618 http://search.proquest.com/pao/docview/1311643420 |
Abstract: | The paper addresses itself to two questions: whether the attitudes of the Ibo, who are usually characterized as exceptionally positively orientated toward development and modernization, are unique in Nigeria, and whether it is meaningful to generalize about uniform Ibo orientations toward development. Very few attempts have been made either to measure internal Ibo variations or to compare systematically Ibo attitudes with those of other ethnic groups. In order to answer these questions the author prepared a seventy-item questionnaire to obtain a sampling of orientations held by people in 1. the more traditional Ibo areas, 2. the more acculturated Ibo sections, and 3. minority (non-Ibo) ethnic localities. The results of the survey showed that the stereotyped image of the modernistic, achievement-motivated Ibo was to a great extent accurate but that the Ibo/non-Ibo cultural dichotomy did not constitute as significant a cleavage as often has been assumed. Tables; notes. |