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Title: | Some Notes on Social Stratification and Social Change in Africa: Some Theoretical Considerations |
Author: | Mansour, Fawzy |
Year: | 1978 |
Periodical: | Africa Development: A Quarterly Journal of CODESRIA (ISSN 0850-3907) |
Volume: | 3 |
Issue: | 3 |
Period: | July-September |
Pages: | 5-15 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Africa |
Subjects: | social structure centre and periphery nation Miscellaneous (i.e. Demography, Refugees, Sports) Development and Technology Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/24486372 |
Abstract: | In the world capitalist system African countries occupy a place as peripheral social formations and, as such, are faced with problems of nation formation, economic development, and social transformation, all requiring simultaneous solution. In this context, the author outlines a theoretical framework for the analysis of internal social stratification in the following sections: The colonial and the peripheral social formations, a distinction - The general and the specific in studying African social formations - The double role of tribal and ethnic affiliations - The extended family as an element in raising social consciousness - High labour turnover - The fiction of an undifferentiated peasantry - Two special circumstances raising social consciousness - Theoretical possibility and actual fulfilment - Complications arising from the ungoing processes of nation-formation - Three varieties of the peripheral social formation - Alternation between liberal-capitalism and bureaucratic-capitalism as a basic law of the peripheral social formation. Notes, french sum. |