Nigerian People and Culture

Flashcards based on lecture notes on Nigerian People and Culture.

What are the key aspects of Nigerian People and Culture course?

Culture, ethics, norms, religion, arts, economics, and societal attitudes.

What are the overall objectives of the Nigerian People and Culture course?

Explain the concept of culture, discuss ethics and discipline in national life, and evaluate economic self-reliance in Nigeria.

What is the recommended study time for each study unit in the Nigerian People and Culture course?

At least 2 hours.

What percentage do Tutor-Marked Assignments contribute to the total score in the Nigerian People and Culture course?

30%

What percentage does the final written examination contribute to the total score in the Nigerian People and Culture course?

70%

What does the concept of culture mean to social scientists?

Learned and shared patterns of behavior and understanding concerning the meaning and value of things, ideas, emotions, and actions facilitated by language and communication in a social group.

List five qualities of culture

Learned, transmitted, social, ideological, adaptive, integrative, and dynamic.

List at least five functions of culture

Defines situations, explains myths, defines attitudes, spells behavior patterns, molds individual's behavior, and defines ways of life.

Define culture diffusion

The transmission and assimilation of culture traits from one culture to another.

What is a subculture?

A distinctive culture shared by a group within a society.

What is the official language of Nigeria?

English.

Name two major religions in Nigeria.

Christianity and Islam.

Describe the typical family structure in Nigeria.

Extended families are the norm. In a Nigerian home, there is the nuclear family with the father, his wife (or wives in polygamous homes), and their children.

What is the role of age and position in Nigerian society?

Age and position earn respect. Older people are granted respect and the oldest person in a group is revered and honored.

How do Nigerians communicate nonverbally to demonstrate empathy?

Facial expressions and indirect eye contract are an expression of empathy.

What does

Ethics is regarded as the principle of right or good conduct in accordance with accepted standards, while discipline is a way of training that produces a specified character or pattern of behavior.

What is the principle of utility ?

It promotes the greatest balance of happiness over unhappiness while giving equal consideration to everyone.

What are the key elements of social morality?

Social justice, individual rights, natural rights, equality, and general welfare.

What are social norms?

Rules regulating citizens’ behaviour in a society and can be prescriptive (acceptable behavior) or proscriptive (unacceptable behavior).

What are folkways?

Approved standards of behaviour passed from one generation to another, not essential to the survival of the group.

What are mores in a society ?

Norms that cover moral and ethical behavior and are crucial to social order.

What are values in any culture?

Central beliefs used as standards by which norms are judged.

What are values moral values?

These are broader abstract, share standards of what is desirable and worth of emulation in a society. For example, patriotism.

What are rituals ?

Ceremonies that reinforce unity of a society and help individuals to overcome major transition in lives.

Define

A re-awakening for the actualization of a better skill, morality is the means of developing a sense of justice, values depict acceptable conduct, and moral problems include violence and corruption.

What are some moral problems plaguing Nigeria?

Crime and violence, corruption, perversion of justice, cultism, and drug abuse.

State a factor causing moral problems in Nigeria?

materialism and break down of the family units.

State a consequences of moral problems in Nigeria?

Stunted economic growth; political instability.

State three moral values as enshrined in religious system

Respect for elders, Loyalty/Patriotism, Truthfulness and honesty

Main Feature of African Religion

Belief in God, belief in divinities and spirits, belief in the cult of ancestors, belief in the practice of magic and medicine, African religious practices such as rites of passage

Define the African idea of partial re-incarnation

some ancestors or living dead are reborn, with only certain aspects of their characteristics or distinctions seen.

What is the function medicine and magic in African religion

They are elements to be used in conquering their environment and forces to protect and prevent from harm.

Define Rites of Passage

These are important events in the lives of individuals and families, that have religious implications and which involves transition or crossing from one stage of life to another.

How is pregnancy regarded in Africa?

It is the spring of new life and highly valued. pregnancy is seen as the final seal of marriage and the sign of full integration of the woman into her husband’s family.

What are the parts include in Art and Culture

literary, visual and performing Arts and it covers what is today classified as information, entertainment, and educative arts. They include literature, fine arts, crafts, museums, monuments, craft centres, theatres, festivals, languages, dress, music, and dance.

What are the pre-colonial Arts like?

wood carvings, Brass casting, pottery and stone sculpture. Each represents unique features related to the environment of each ethinic group.

Mention the two excavation sites that revealed facts about the pre-colonial people of South Eastern Nigeria

Igbo Ukwu, nok e

What are the factors that cause constant flux to the definition of self?

The constant flux nature of self is related to the never -anding dynamics and formation processes through dialogs with significant others that co exists withing one self

Why order and chaos two sides of the same coin?

Order and chaos are two sides of the same, it implies that unpredictability means that predictability should not exist and a lot of events that occurs are unpredictable. Hence, both conditions of existence are necessary.

Why there is imposition of control to emerging African nations?

To formal institutions (the colonist from the west), to the informal traditional networks.

Explain the effects of implementation of the social change of Nigeria

The success of the implementation of effect of social change results that has long been desired by its citizen

Define Attitude

A hypothetical construct that represents an individuals degree of like or dislike for an item or person. Attitudes are generally positive or negative views of a person, place, thing, or event.

List three types of Attitude

Miserable Type, Silent Killer, Drama Queen, Woe is me and The Paranoid Type

Identify some kinds of Negative Attitude among the student.

Cybercrime, Examination Malpractices and Cultism

Explain the consequence of sustained Negative Attitude

Shortens ones Life, harm others and produce Negative effects

What is the best way to be used to change Negative Attitude?

Negative Attitude can be changed primarily by changing the peoples Mental state (mind set) of the people.