Role Segregation for Fun and Profit

The Daily Behavior of the West African Lorry Driver

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2509972
AutoresJames William Jordan (autor de correspondencia)
Año1978
Volumen48
Número1
Páginas30-46
Fecha de publicación1978-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAfrica (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0001-9720 • E-ISSN: 1750-0184
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/1158709
OpenAlexW2161205830
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10
Referencias citadas17

Opening ParagraphThe purpose of this paper is to present evidence of the changes which occur in the behavior of truck and lorry drivers when they are operating their vehicles as opposed to their behavior at other times. Specifically, it is hypothesized that drivers of trucks and lorries in certain West African societies behave in a very time and profit oriented, efficiency conscious manner when they are actually driving, but that this mode of behavior is not carried over into other spheres of their daily interaction. The impression, to use Ferdinand Tonnies' terms (1887), is one of an island of gesellschaft behavior (driving the vehicle) surrounded by an ocean of gemeinschaft behavior (the remainder of daily life

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