(21): Socio-economics of Courtship in Northern Hausa-Muslim society.
MA Iliasu. Abstract . Sociology, politics, geography, psychology and culture are all functions of economics. As Karl Marx asserts, the mode of production in material life determines the general character and sociopolitical, cultural and economic behaviour of the society, in his revolutionary and prolific dissection of historical materialism. And to whichever provable historical paradigm, scientific framework and philosophical logic, Marx has not been proved wrong. Evidently because the dictates of mode of production has seen to it that all aspects of society have been relied upon it's nature. And marriage, being one of the inherent and ubiquitous bodies of culture and sociology, which is also the further level of courtship, has also been very sensitive to the mode of production. In the past, it was relatively determined by the sociocultural reciprocal altruism, effort, pursuit of experiential derivations, and the glorious feudal solidarity. But in the present, it has been reduced t...