Forging Patriotism among Youth in Lagos: Unveiling the Impact of Social Integration and Civic Education

Abstract

Every society's level of excellence is primarily determined by how much its citizens love and support their country, the main objective of the study is to examine forging patriotism among youth and unveiling the impact of social integration and civic education. The study adopted a quantitative research design that employed Simple random sampling, the study focused on suburban areas in Lagos State, this area was chosen due to low youth participation in national activities, with a sample size of 171 youth for the study, data were collected using self-administered questionnaires to gather data among the selected respondents and were analyzed using the statistical tool. Pearson’s correlation was used to analyze the data, and the findings revealed that the level of patriotism and social integration was good, however, the level of civic education was negative. As an implication, the youth should be sufficiently educated to ensure they are patriotic toward the nation.