Browsing by Author "Salawu, B."

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    The Basic Social Institutions
    (Cresthill Publishers Ltd., Ibadan, 2003) Salawu, B.; Adekeye, Deborah Shade
    Everywhere, human beings develop arrangements for producing, distributing and consuming goods. in other words they have developed the institution of economy. Human beings everywhere have also developed some sort of system for distributing power, this is call government. in every human society, people have also developed procedures for teaching children in their society. this is called education or socialization. Finally, human beings everywhere develop explanations for their place in the universe, this is called religion.
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    Disabled Persons and Human Rights Violation
    (Department of Sociology, Bayero University, Kano-Nigeria, 2012-01) Adekeye, Deborah Shade; Salawu, B.
    From the available statistics, over 600 million people or approximately 10 percent of the word's total population have a disability of one form or another. Interestingly, over two thirds of them live in developing countries, which include Nigeria. Generally, these disable persons wherever they are found are exposed to various forms of discrimination and social exclusion. In other words, they are denied the full range of civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights which other citizens enjoyed...
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    Explaining the Divorce Phenomenon among Indigenes of the Ilorin Emirate in Kwara State, Nigeria
    (Journal of the Nigeria Anthropological and Sociological Association (NASA), 2011) Adekeye, Deborah Shade; Salawu, B.
    The family institution, which is the basic foundation of every society, is being threatened by high rate of divorce globally. The literature and popular media are replete with statistics about the rise in the rate of divorce and the decreasing stability of the nuclear family. It is believed that this situation often results into an unstable society and even destroys its form and moral standards. Consequently the adolescents who are raised in such broken homes are more likely to drop out of school, to use drug, to have teen births, to have illegitimate children and to be poorer than their counterparts whose natal home is intact. ..
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    From Secret Societies to Collegiate Cultism
    (Hussaini Adamu Federal Polytechnic, Kazaure, 2008) Salawu, B.; Adekeye, Deborah Shade