IMPACT OF MODERNIZATION ON THE TRADITIONAL KINSHIP FAMILY SYSTEM IN NIGERIA ( A STUDY OF URUALLA COMMUNITY IN IDEATO NORTH LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF IMO STATE

📄 Project Abstract

This work attempted to investigate how the changes from traditional agricultural society to industrializing one affected the kinship/family system of the Ideato people particularly the Urualla Community. As an agrarian society, the Ideato people live together; share their existence collectively in large descent groups and extended families. Communal land including forest resources, the hallmark of their survival and existence, hence the close and affectionate kinship bond among relatives and family members. This situation was found to have changed as people engaged in paid (wage) employment and were living separate from their families several miles away in satellites or urban centers, kinship bonds began to weaken as people now tended to concentrate on solving their own personal problems and those of their immediate family wife, husband or children. In this research, 200 people were sampled. It was realized that the role of the family has changed because of the effects of modernization...