Influence of Socio-Economic Change on Marriage Norms in the Yoruba Soiety, in Southwest Nigeria

Odejobi Cecilia Omobola

Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 2013, vol. 2

Abstract: Marriage is a social institution that unites people in a special form of mutual dependence for the purpose of founding and maintaining a family. This article therefore examines the influences of socio-economic change on marriage norms in Yoruba society. The various steps in Yoruba traditional marriage norm were examined and it was discovered that socio-economic change has affected all the cultural norms associated with Yoruba traditional marriage.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.5901/ajis.2013.v2n3p139

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