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  title info:
    non sort: An
    title: analysis of community power structure and socioeconomic characteristics of leaders in Owerri, Nigeria
  name:
    name part: Akubukwe, David Obi
    name part: 1938-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Schaffer, Ruth C.
    role:
      role term: degree supervisor.
  name:
    name part: McIntosh, Wm. Alex
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Sell, Jane
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Vedlitz, Arnold
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Texas A & M University
    role:
      role term: degree granting institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Academic theses
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 1993
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 154 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm
  abstract: Although the study of community power structure or community decision-making has been relatively intense in the United States since the early 1950s, the study in Nigerian communities is scanty, if there are any at all. The need to advance the study of community power structures in Nigerian communities is the principal stimulus for this study. There are several perceptions of community power. This study reviewed the two major theories of social power, the elitist and pluralist. It also examined the four dominant methods for the study of community power-- the positional, reputational, decisional and a combined approach. A combination of reputational and decisional methods was used in this study to locate the Owerri decision-makers or leaders and the key issues in which the leaders were involved. Four hypotheses are analyzed: (1) key decisional areas in Owerri within the last decade is small; (2) decision making in Owerri is elitist; (3) the key decision-makers fill positions in political and economic organizations; and (4) the characteristics of the decisional leaders are varied. Twelve informants and thirty-three leaders were interviewed. They mentioned a total of sixty-one leaders and three key issues-- the land, Eze and market issues. In the land and market issues, the Owerri leaders were on one side against the state government's propositions and actions while the leaders were divided on the Eze issue. There are some similarities and differences between the findings in the Owerri community power study and those of the communities studied in the United States. There is a need for social scientists both in Nigeria and Western countries that specialized in community studies to extend their researches to Nigerian communities to provide more bases for comparison between the Nigerian communities and communities in other countries.
  note: Vita.
  note: "Major subject: Sociology."
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Ph. D. Texas A & M University 1993
  subject:
    topic: Major sociology
  classification: LB 49529
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  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 960322
    record change date: 20200904152645.0
    record identifier: in00001259825
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng