West African Perspectives on Social Deviance, Change, and Tradition

West African Perspectives on Social Deviance, Change, and Tradition

Editor

William R. Morgan

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Description

This book is a product of a grant to Cleveland State University, directed by the editor, William R. Morgan, and funded by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, U.S. State Department. The grant, titled “A Comparative Curriculum for Criminology and Deviance,” brought together sociologist from the respective public universities of Cleveland, Ohio and Kano, Nigeria to research problems of social deviance and community response common to both urban settings, but with a focus on Kano as the empirical context.

ISBN

978-1-956812-12-1

Publication Date

7-8-2026

Publisher

MSL Academic Endeavors, Imprint of the Cleveland State University, Michael Schwartz Library

City

Cleveland, Ohio

Keywords

Domestic violence, youth gangs, gender role changes, child labor, AIDS in Africa, Policing for federal control, social injustice in criminal and mental institutions, joint effects of continuing Islamic education and expanding western education, culture shock experience of African students in an American university

Disciplines

Social and Behavioral Sciences

About the Author

The author and editor received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago.  His 50-year academic career has included terms as sociology department chair at both relatively new universities, Bayero University Kano and Cleveland State University.

West African Perspectives on Social Deviance, Change, and Tradition

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