A GLOBALISING WORLD AND SOCIAL VALUE DISORIENTATION IN NIGERIA

Abstract

Sociological literature is replete with discussions on social values, more so, its dialectical relationship with individual and group behaviour. However, contemporary discourse on social values has failed to interrogate the interface between globalization and social values in Nigeria. This paper seeks to demonstrate that much of the social values of developing countries like Nigeria have been undermined or corroded by the force of globalization. The paper argues that Nigerian social values have become disoriented and incapable of providing the bulwark for the much needed reforms, primarily because of the force of “externalities,” as driven by the hydra-headed phenomenon of globalization. The paper suggests a reinvention or resuscitation of Nigerian social values as the roadmap to building a new Nigerian nation.