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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.
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