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Title: | Youth and Society in Zambia: A Sense of Community among University Students |
Author: | Mwanalushi, Muyunda |
Year: | 1981 |
Periodical: | African Social Research |
Issue: | 31 |
Period: | June |
Pages: | 49-66 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Zambia |
Subjects: | nationalism students Education and Oral Traditions Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Miscellaneous (i.e. Demography, Refugees, Sports) |
Abstract: | As part of a larger, long-term study on adolescence in Zambia, the author investigated the views of University of Zambia youth on various issues relating to national identity. Here he uses the less emotionally loaded but more comprehensive expression 'sense of community' to include what is ordinarily meant by 'national identity' and other concerns about society. In studying the sense of community among University of Zambia students the author used a questionnaire, which covered the affective, cognitive and behavioral components of people's attachment to the nation-state. Results indicate that university youth have a strong sense of national identity and their concern with their society is expressed, amongst others, by their proclivity for questioning and criticising the way that society is organised. The fervor for criticism and questioning can best be understood within the overall context of changes taking place within the individual during adolescence, in particular the development of intellectual maturity and the establishment of a personal identity which is both psychologically satisfying and socially acceptable. Notes, ref., tab. |