Most times, we hear of patients who complain about the ‘wickedness’ or poor attitude of and other medical staff; We also read of hospital administrators who are in conflict with doctors, nurses or hospital staff over all manner of issues. Korle-Bu is a typical example here. One needs to have the sociological imagination to appreciate…
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MATERNAL MORTALITY: THE MACRO AND MICRO ISSUES IN GHANA
Since the 1970s, the world’s attention has focused on the plight of women and children, especially those in the developing world. Resulting from this, a number of international conventions and protocols have been instituted to raise the standard of women and children. Some of these include the Safe Motherhood Initiative; the Convention on the Elimination…
ANTHROPOLOGY OF FOOD
INTRODUCTION Sociological/anthropological interest in food should not surprise us. This is because, wherever human beings are, what they do, think, perceive and eat or abstain from, are all of interest to the sociologist/anthropologist. In all our lectures, we have been at pains to emphasize the centrality of culture in human behaviours. As to be expected…
Culture, Development and Religion
Aspects of Religion, Culture & Development Nature of African Religion; country profiles, Religion and development. Fatalism & Concepts of Divine authorship. Witchcraft (magic & sorcery) & development Implications for individual rights. Implications for attitudes to contemporary business culture Some Reading Opoku O. 2001, ‘Deliverance as a way of Confronting Witchcraft in Modern Africa: Ghana…
African Marriage
Questions to ponder over In what ways can marriage be rightly regarded as a gender issue in some African societies? To what extent does the African preoccu-pation with reproduction explain the exotic forms of marriage that we see? Why does bridewealth continue to be an issue in African societies today? To what extent would the…
Community
We may look at community in two senses, one geographic and the other moral. The geographic sense of community, which happens to be what most people generally have in mind when they use the term, refers to a neighbourhood, village, small town, or specific locality. Members of a community in the geographic sense may share…
Supernaturalism
There is a strong belief, shared by all the cultures of Ghana, in the existence and influence of supernatural beings, lesser gods along with the belief in the one Supreme being. Beliefs in witchcraft and a variety of spirits, fetishes and powers, both good and bad, are also an element that is common to the…
Our culture and national identity
Our country, Ghana is a multi ethnic, multilingual and multicultural state: it contains many ethnic groups, many languages and therefore, many cultures. There are several problems generated by the ethnically and culturally plural structure of our nation. One problem is how to weld the consistent ethnic groups into a new,certainly, larger socio-political association for the…
The Population Policy
Let us begin by looking at some of the essential features of the 1994 population policy as contained in the National Population Policy and issued by the National Population Council. Among the essential features of the policy document, the following may be briefly mentioned: Matters regarding the age structure of the population were an important…
AFRICAN FAMILY IN CULTURE & Development
Definitions Family: group of people related through perceived ‘blood’ ties, marriage or by adoption. Family members identify with each other and may or may not live together, May cooperate on regular or irregular basis, Could share collective interests & sentiments. The morality of the family imposes reciprocity sharing and caring for one another; loyalty &…