Browsing by Author "Fakunle, Sunday"

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    Community Participation: A Pragmatic Solution to Negative Impacts of Covid-19 on Households’ Socioeconomic Lives
    (Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Center (http://jssidoi.org/esc/home), 2021-12-31) Fakunle, Sunday
    The worldwide outbreak of COVID-19 and its impacts have become an academic concern. The concern has generated a plethora of studies and reports that have identified a number of negative impacts of COVID-19 on household socioeconomic lives in Nigeria. Therefore, Nigerian governments at different levels in conjunction with several international organisations have tried to deal with these impacts; however, the expected result is far below the reality. Advocacy of adopting bottom-top approaches to solving various community problems and the grand relevance of Community-Based Organisations (CBOs), as a form of community participation, prompted this study. The specific objective of the study was to investigate the roles of CBOs in complementing the governments’ efforts to alleviate the negative impacts on household socioeconomic lives. The location of the study was Ife-East Local Government Area of Osun State, Nigeria where there existed a number of various CBOs as in other part of the country. The study was cross-sectional and exploratory in nature while a qualitative method, in-depth face-to-face interview, was employed to collect the primary data for this study. The study covered all the 10 electoral wards that exist in the study location. Via purposive sampling method, 5 CBOs were selected in each of the 10 wards, making a total size of 50 CBOs. To obtain the primary data, 2 CBO leaders (a man and a woman) and 4 CBO members (2 men and 2 women) among the 5 selected CBOs in each of the wards were purposively selected, making a total sample size of 60 from all the electoral wards for the in-depths face-to-face interview. Both thematic and contents analyses were utilized to analyze the collected data. The study found that the CBOs rendered economic support in forms of pooling resources together for fund provision, purchasing goods in large quantities at lower prices, creating platforms to attract loans, assistance and to invite experts for empowerment programmes for their members. The study further found that the CBO members benefited social support in form of provision of platforms to share their experiences, to boost members’ morale to avert psychological challenges that tended to generate committing suicide and to invite medical experts on sensitization programmes about COVID-19 and its effects. As this study solely focused on ways that several aspects of households’ socioeconomic lives were shielded from the negative impacts of the pandemic through community participation via various CBOs, this study solicited future studies that shall focus mainly on the challenges that the CBOs encounter in realizing this goal and the means of coping with the highlighted challenges.
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    Community Participation: The Cornerstone for the Efficiency of Institutional Frameworks for Household Solid Waste Management in Low-income Residential Areas in Nigeria.
    (American Center of Science and Education, USA, 2021-02) Fakunle, Sunday
    The positive relationship between economy expansion and urban population explosion in Nigeria has generated a corresponding proliferation of household solid waste in low income residential areas of the urban centres of the country. Studies have shown indiscriminate disposal of the household solid waste is rampant in the low-income residential areas and this has been a grave concern of the government at the grassroots. In spite of several institutional frameworks set up by the Local Authorities to attain proper management of the waste, the expectation and the reality are not in tandem and among the most cited reasons is that the management procedures and frameworks are not community-based. Based on the assertions of social innovation theory, this systematic review highlights and emphasizes the significance of community participation, via Community-Based Organizations preferably the Landlords Association, in ensuring the efficiency of the set up institutional frameworks in low-income residential areas, in particular
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    Cultural Dimension of Environmental Problems: A critical overview of waste generation and management in Nigeria
    (CRIBFB, USA, 2021) Fakunle, Sunday
    Several studies have presented solid waste generation and management in urban centres as an engineering and technological concern. These studies neglected culture as the basic determinants of all happenings in human society; hence, the cultural facets of solid waste generation and management were rendered insignificant. As culture provides the context within which all human activities take place, culture was envisaged in this paper as a driving force for public perception, decision making and participation in solid waste generation and management in urban centres. Therefore, this study adopted both meta-analysis and meta-synthesis to pinpoint and discuss some theoretical key cultural factors and social practices influencing municipal solid waste generation and management. It identified trends and relationship between findings from the available empirical and theoretical studies. This paper discovered in the available relevant literature that cultural factors such as customs, belief and attitude of the urbanites that promoted their preference for food packaged with non-biodegradable material and the ways they conducted social practices resulted in solid waste generation. Lastly, methods and the cost of solid waste disposal, individualism and nonchalant attitude of people were found as the factors militating against proper management of solid wastes.
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    An Empirical Study of Community Involvement in Household Solid Waste Management
    (Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Center (http://jssidoi.org/esc/home), 2021-09-30) Fakunle, Sunday
    In recent times, with the main purpose of enhancing public health, proper management of household solid waste in low-income residential areas of urban centres has gained special attention among scholars in developing countries. From the sociological perspective, perception is one of the key determinants of the people’s behaviour in their society. Therefore this study examined the perception of people about solid waste management and identified the key factors influencing this perception. The study was carried out in the first quarters of 2021 and covered Ife Central Local Government Area of Osun State, South-West Nigeria and adopted cross-sectional research design. Purposive sampling method was used to select 5 electoral wards in the Local Government Area where heaps of dirt was more common and 30 households nearer to the heap in each of the wards respectively. The total sample size of 150 used in the study mainly composed the eldest and active female of each the selected household. Descriptive statistics was used to analyze the primary data gathered. This study found that the residents were aware of the health-related challenges resulted from improper management of solid waste and were interested in reducing household solid waste generated. However, methods, the cost, lack of cooperation and nonchalant attitude of people were among the major potential factors militating against achieving this.
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    Gender Differential in Mobile Phone Use and Travel Behaviour
    (Discovery Scientific Society, 2021-02) Fakunle, Sunday
    The main thrust of this research work was to unveil the effect of globalisation on gender equality as one of the sustainable development goals by examining gender differences in mobile phone use. The specific goal of this research work was to adopt sociological approach to assess the influence of mobile phone use on frequency of trips made on selected social activities among men and women in Ile-Ife, Southwestern Nigeria. The study was carried out in the 11 political wards of urban centre of Ile-Ife. The quantitative primary data was sourced from 330 active adults who were purposively selected as the sample size. The ages of these adults range from 35 years to 50 years. In addition, the qualitative primary data was sourced 22 adults (11 males and females respectively) who were purposively selected for in-depth interviews. Contents analysis and descriptive statistics were used to analyze the qualitative data and the quantitative data respectively. This study found gender equality in mobile phone use as more women (55 per cent) used mobile phone for business/work than men (45 per cent); also by use of mobile phone use, more women (41 per cent) had an increase in religion trips than men (40 per cent); more women (40 per cent) had an increase in trips made on visitation to friends/relatives than men (36 per cent), mobile phone use had also generated an increase in trips made on educational purposes for more women (44 per cent) than men (33 per cent). However, this study further found that mobile phone differently influenced the frequency of trips which both gender made on the selected social activities in the study location. Finally, this study concluded that mobile phone use has advanced integrating women into globalisation and thereby promoted gender equality to a certain extent.
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    Globalisation and Trends of Changes in Family Institution in Nigerian Society
    (American Center of Science and Education, 2021) Fakunle, Sunday
    As a basic unit of kinship relationships, the family plays a significant role in every Nigerian society. With the occurrence of social change in every society in the contemporary period, Nigerian traditional family structure and setting have undergone significant alterations as a consequence of the influx of the superfluous forces through globalisation. The sole objective of this review was to pinpoint the cultural aspects of the indigenous family system that technological, socio-cultural and economic factors, as components of globalisation, have altered in Nigerian society. In this systematic review, integration of a large body of both quantitative and qualitative findings from previous relevant studies was carried out to achieve the sole objective of this study. Via the available relevant previous studies, this systematic review concluded that several family structures and settings, such as mate selection, family size, family settlement and resident rule (from patrilocal to neolocal), child rearing as well as relationship between work and family role of gender have undergone changes while new pattern of family structure and setting such as non-marital childbearing, single parenthood, non-marital unions, cohabiting couples, single parent family, blended family or contract marriage, homosexual couples are on the increase in the country.
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    Knowledge of Plastic Bottle Waste Management and Socio-cultural factors in Ile-Ife city: A Rapid Qualitative Study
    (Department of Arts & Social Science Education, Lead City University, 2022-07-01) Fakunle, Sunday
    Knowledge has produced technologies that have helped to transform product packaging; therefore, many products in liquid form that were formerly in glass bottles are now packaged in plastic bottles, considering the cost effect and portability of the bottles. This transformation has generated proliferation of used plastic bottles and more waste. While several frameworks are in place to manage used plastic bottles, the anticipated outcome is yet to materialize. Hence, this study set out to identify the specific socio-cultural factors that influence the recommended frameworks to manage plastic bottle waste and how this manifests. The study covered the high-density residential areas of Ile-Ife. Purposive sampling technique was employed to select the 16 electoral wards that covered the study location and 2 streets from each of the wards. Also, 2 adult informants were purposively selected in each street, making an aggregate sample size of 64 for this study. An in-depth face-to-face interview was conducted to obtain the primary data for this study. The garnered data was analyzed using content analysis. The study found and concluded that the residents’ attitude, economic conditions and activities, level of knowledge, belief, perception, customs and traditions were the specific socio-cultural factors influencing plastic bottle waste management in the study location.
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    Mobile Phone Use and Travel Behaviour of Adult Residents of Ile-Ife, South-western Nigeria
    (Research on Humanities and Social Sciences, 2018) Fakunle, Sunday
    This study examined the influence of mobile phone use on the frequency of trips which Ile-Ife residents made on social activities. The study covered eleven electoral wards of the urban Ile-Ife. Purposive sampling method was used to select a sample size of 330 working adults who were mobile phones users and between aged 35 years and 50 years. Moreover, to obtain the qualitative data, purposive sampling method was adopted to obtain a total sample size of 22 for in-depth interviews. Contents analysis and descriptive statistics were used to analyze the qualitative data and the quantitative data respectively. This study found an increase in frequency of trips made on visitation to friend and relatives, business/work, religion purposes while mobile phone use did not influence the frequency of trips made on recreational purposes and ceremonies. This study concluded that mobile phone use influenced the frequency of some trips which the adults in Ile-Ife, Southwestern Nigeria made on social activities.
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    Peculiarities of ICT Adoption in Nigeria
    (Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Center (http://jssidoi.org/esc/home), 2021-12-31) Fakunle, Sunday
    From the vantage point of social change and development, studies have indicated that applying information and communication technology (ICT) in people’s daily activities has enabled human beings to amazingly achieve things that were considered unattainable a couple of centuries ago. These remarkable achievements are evident in healthcare system, education, connectivity, economic and religious activities, among others. Studies have further indicated that there is some discrepancy between the extent to which the residents of the advanced countries and developing countries respectively accept ICT use in their daily activities. Hence, the sole objective of this systematic review is to investigate the current position of ICT use by the residents of Nigeria and the socio-cultural, economic, and technical factors that influence the popularity and acceptability of the ICT use in the country. To attain this objective, relevant available previous, mainly indigenous, studies that were published from the year 2015 to the year 2021 were sought and sorted, while the integration of the relevant previous qualitative, quantitative, empirical and theoretical studies were carried out thematically. This study discovered ICT use in tertiary education, maintenance of relationship, complementing healthcare system, ensuring the safety the relatives, religious and economic activities among the residents of the country. The conclusion drawn from this systematic review was that the ICTs use has been widely accepted among Nigerians in their various social activities, however, with challenges posed by several socio-cultural, economic and technical factors.
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    Socio-cultural Binocular View of Telemedicine in Sub-Saharan Africa: Potency, Prospect, Defect and Danger
    (American Center of Science and Education, USA, 2021-03) Fakunle, Sunday
    Sub-Saharan Africa has experienced unprecedented technological advancement, just like several other regions of the world. This improvement in technology lends credence to the proliferation of android mobile phones, laptops computers and the Internet facilities that enhance interaction on the social media which in turn generates momentous alterations in the ways the residents of the region construct their daily lives. From epidemiological perspective as well as the viewpoint of change and development, via these information technologies, rendering health-related care and services to the residents in the remote places of the region and gaining access to vital information that prompts prevention and control of diseases are now feasible unlike before the advancement. Therefore, telemedicine symbolizes a health innovation in the region. In the light of this, this paper systematically reviewed the extent to which telemedicine has gained acceptance among the residents of the region; and the socio-cultural factors and practices that promote and decelerate the general acceptance of telemedicine in the region. To accomplish the objective, the review was done meta-analytically and meta-synthetically to explore recent relevant studies. The paper discovered that reduction in the cost of gaining access to health information, harnessing online health and medical services, are among the benefits derived from telemedicine while fake online information, impoverished network service delivery, financial incapacity, theft, technical faults, underutilization of the technology devices and cyber-crime are among the factors that militate against wide acceptance of telemedicine in the region.
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    Socio-cultural factors and Acceptance of COVID-19 Vaccines: A rapid cross-sectional qualitative study.
    (Interdisciplinary Journal of College of Postgraduate Studies Redeemers’ University Ede (Corpus Intellectual), 2022-08) Fakunle, Sunday
    As a result of the perceived infringement of COVID-19 prophylactic measures on people’s freedom as well as their socio-cultural and economic lives, only vaccination has remained, while people have reverted to their respective normal ways of life that portray that the COVID-19 pandemic is over without waiting for the declaration of the World Health Organization. However, almost two years after the discovery of medically approved vaccines for this novel coronavirus, reports have indicated Nigerians’ skepticism about the acceptance of the vaccines. A large number of studies on the acceptance of COVID-19 vaccines were internet-based and largely employed quantitative approaches. This condition has resulted in a dearth of qualitative approaches to explore socio-cultural factors influencing the acceptance of the vaccine. Therefore, the sole objective of this study was to discover the current socio-cultural factors influencing the acceptance of the medically approved vaccines using a qualitative approach. Roger’s diffusion of innovation theory was utilized to explain the continuum of the acceptance of the vaccine. The study covered the highly dense residential areas of the Southwest zone of Nigeria. Purposive sampling was adopted to select the 6 State capitals of the zone, each of which 3 electoral wards were purposively selected, making a total of 18 electoral wards. Meanwhile, four informants (2 males and 2 females) who were residents of the study location with several parameters were purposively selected, making a total sample size of 72 for the study. An in-depth face-to-face interview was employed to gather the primary data for this study. The study utilized an interview guide that contained unstructured questions that centered on the sole objective of this study. Both thematic and content analyses were utilized to analyze the collected data. The study found that predestination, belief in supernatural healing, misconception of the vaccine as the satanic mark-666; birth rate control means, economic issues, social vices, political activities and crises, trado-medical practices, ethnocentrism, and stigmatization were the major factors influencing the acceptance of the vaccines. The study concluded that there were several socio-cultural factors that prevented people from taking the approved vaccine in the study location