| Abstract: | With a rural population of over 70 per cent, Nigeria consists of two analytically distinct but interdependent social systems traditional and modern. These socio-cultural differences cannot be over-emphasized; they are being gradually, if imperceptibly, eroded. In the complex and dynamic Nigerian society both consensus and conflict theories of society are not mutually exclusive. Consensus and conflict are two features of the cultural difference-reducing Nigerian society. In its current culturally melting stage, the solidarity and stability of the Nigerian society cannot be achieved through processes involving an imposition of single loyalty and perspective but by a process of compromising diverse loyalties and viewpoints, thus providing for group and individual interests through shred participation in different institutional spheres and in internal and external systems. Ref., figures. |
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