Akinsola A Akiwowo
Biographic Data
| ID | 286448 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Akinsola A Akiwowo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Akinsola A |
| FAMILY NAME | Akiwowo |
| SIGNATURE | AKIWOWO A A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Obafemi Awolowo University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 191 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Indigenous Sociologies
This article reopens a debate launched approximately a decade ago on the links between indigenous sociologies and internationalization of sociology and the sociology of one world. The author extends the 'scope of the argument' regarding problems of indigenous sociology by re-examining the issues of the asuwada principle, the notion of asuwada eniyan, the concepts of ajobi and ajogbe as forms of sociation, and the logic of fuzzy thinking in the de…
Responses to Makinde/Lawuyi and Taiwo
Universalism and Indigenisation in Sociological Theory
Contributions To the Sociology of Knowledge From an African Oral Poetry
Explanatory principles in the social sciences may be denved from diverse sources. Here, from West Africa, a Yoruba oral poetry, Ayajo Asuwada, usually recited at the consecration of a new human settlement, is interpreted as saying that the universal principle of asuwa is the source of all things, which continue in being as communities. From community stems goodness and aisuwa, self-alienation, occurs when the common good is ignored. Nine related …
Ethnicity and Ethnic Mobilization
National and Ethnic Movements
Trend Report
Military Professionalization and the Crisis of Returning Power to Civilian Regimes of West Africa
Prestige and Culture
Examination of human prestige-striving in phylogenetic perspective suggests it to be essentially homologous with primate social dominance. In our own species, however, selection for "cultural capacity" has transformed striving for social dominance into striving to evaluate the self as being higher in rank than others or, in other words, into striving for self-esteem. We maintain self-esteem through symbolic means, usually referred to as seeking "…
Racialism and Shifts in the Mental Orientation of Black People in West Africa and the Americas, 1856 to 1956
The Place of Mojola Agbebi in the African Nationalist Movements
The Sociology of Nigerian Tribalism
T HE CONCEPT OF TRIBALISM is gaining increasing usage among students of African social and cultural change. Other concepts, like Africanism and Negritude, are also finding wide usage; but tribalism is heard more often, for what it connotes rather than for what it denotes. For it is used as a synonym for ethnocentrism, and many persons are interested in the limiting influence of ethnocentrism today. Nevertheless, this use neglects certain signific…
Prestige and Culture
Examination of human prestige-striving in phylogenetic perspective suggests it to be essentially homologous with primate social dominance. In our own species, however, selection for "cultural capacity" has transformed striving for social dominance into striving to evaluate the self as being higher in rank than others or, in other words, into striving for self-esteem. We maintain self-esteem through symbolic means, usually referred to as seeking "…
Indigenous Sociologies
This article reopens a debate launched approximately a decade ago on the links between indigenous sociologies and internationalization of sociology and the sociology of one world. The author extends the 'scope of the argument' regarding problems of indigenous sociology by re-examining the issues of the asuwada principle, the notion of asuwada eniyan, the concepts of ajobi and ajogbe as forms of sociation, and the logic of fuzzy thinking in the de…
Contributions To the Sociology of Knowledge From an African Oral Poetry
Explanatory principles in the social sciences may be denved from diverse sources. Here, from West Africa, a Yoruba oral poetry, Ayajo Asuwada, usually recited at the consecration of a new human settlement, is interpreted as saying that the universal principle of asuwa is the source of all things, which continue in being as communities. From community stems goodness and aisuwa, self-alienation, occurs when the common good is ignored. Nine related …
Universalism and Indigenisation in Sociological Theory
National and Ethnic Movements
Responses to Makinde/Lawuyi and Taiwo
Trend Report
Military Professionalization and the Crisis of Returning Power to Civilian Regimes of West Africa
Ethnicity and Ethnic Mobilization
The Place of Mojola Agbebi in the African Nationalist Movements
The Sociology of Nigerian Tribalism
T HE CONCEPT OF TRIBALISM is gaining increasing usage among students of African social and cultural change. Other concepts, like Africanism and Negritude, are also finding wide usage; but tribalism is heard more often, for what it connotes rather than for what it denotes. For it is used as a synonym for ethnocentrism, and many persons are interested in the limiting influence of ethnocentrism today. Nevertheless, this use neglects certain signific…
The Place of Mojola Agbebi in the African Nationalist Movements
Racialism and Shifts in the Mental Orientation of Black People in West Africa and the Americas, 1856 to 1956
Prestige and Culture
Examination of human prestige-striving in phylogenetic perspective suggests it to be essentially homologous with primate social dominance. In our own species, however, selection for "cultural capacity" has transformed striving for social dominance into striving to evaluate the self as being higher in rank than others or, in other words, into striving for self-esteem. We maintain self-esteem through symbolic means, usually referred to as seeking "…
Military Professionalization and the Crisis of Returning Power to Civilian Regimes of West Africa
Trend Report
National and Ethnic Movements
Ethnicity and Ethnic Mobilization
Contributions To the Sociology of Knowledge From an African Oral Poetry
Explanatory principles in the social sciences may be denved from diverse sources. Here, from West Africa, a Yoruba oral poetry, Ayajo Asuwada, usually recited at the consecration of a new human settlement, is interpreted as saying that the universal principle of asuwa is the source of all things, which continue in being as communities. From community stems goodness and aisuwa, self-alienation, occurs when the common good is ignored. Nine related …
Universalism and Indigenisation in Sociological Theory
Responses to Makinde/Lawuyi and Taiwo
Indigenous Sociologies
This article reopens a debate launched approximately a decade ago on the links between indigenous sociologies and internationalization of sociology and the sociology of one world. The author extends the 'scope of the argument' regarding problems of indigenous sociology by re-examining the issues of the asuwada principle, the notion of asuwada eniyan, the concepts of ajobi and ajogbe as forms of sociation, and the logic of fuzzy thinking in the de…
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