Interrogating the Plausibility of Ideological Classification of Nigerian Society
No Thumbnail Available
Date
2016
Authors
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Unizik Journal of Arts and Humanities
Abstract
It is almost a theoretical truism that a society comprises
different groups of people held together by common ideas,
goals, and social-political and economic principles. These
ideas, goals and principles precipitated different ideological
groupings depending on the nature and supporting history of
such society. Resulting from the differences in ideas, goals
and principles in such a society, one ideological group is
classified from the other. Consequently, talking about the
organization of some Western societies namely, the United
Kingdom, there are some diverse but sometimes competing
ideological schools. Typically, we have the Conservative, the
Liberal and the Radical Left. However, attempts are made to
define African politico-economic structures along these
foreign ideological classifications. This originates from the
view that an ideological classification which originated and
is working in some particular Western society must also work
in typical African society. Whereas, the latter is not only
different in its theoretical framework but also in its historical
background. Consequently, this paper seeks to interrogate
the justification of such classification of Nigerian society.
The paper intends to submit that attempting to classify
Nigerian politico-economic structure into these ideological
frameworks is not only contradictory to the nature of our
society, but also that such classifications are just conceptual
acronyms for pseudo classes.