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Rural Banks (BPR) as financial institutions which in their activities do not provide services in payment traffic consists of conventional BPRs and Sharia BPRs (BPRS). During the COVID-19 period, there was information stated that BPRs experienced positive growth, while according to LPS from 2005 to April 2021, there were 110 BPRs that were liquidated which had to be funded by LPS. Based on this fact the authors are interested in analyzing the performance of BPR and BPRS with the aim of knowing: (1) There is a difference or not in the performance of the BPR Lestari Banten bank before covid (2019) and after covid 19 (2020), (2) There is a difference or not in the performance of the BPRS Harta Insan Karomah Parahyangan (HIKP) bank before covid (2019) and after covid 19 (2020), (3) There is a difference or not in the performance of BPR Lestari Banten and BPRS HIKP before covid 19 (2019), (4). There is a difference or not in the performance of BPR Lestari Banten and BPRS HIKP after covid 19 (2020). The method and the analytical tools used are t-test (paired sample t test), Wilcoxon test, independent test and Mann Whitney U. The results of the study are: (1). There is no difference in the performance of the BPR Lestari Banten bank before covid (2019) and after covid 19 (2020), (2). There is no difference in the performance of the BPRS Harta Insan Karomah Parahyangan (HIKP) bank before covid (2019) and after covid 19 (2020), (3). There is no difference in the performance of BPR Lestari Banten and BPRS HIKP before covid 19 (2019), (4). There is no difference in the performance of BPR Lestari Banten and BPRS HIKP after covid 19 (2020).

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Electoral sociology, the subject of this study, appears to be a privileged framework for the exercise and understanding of theories of voting, and knowledge of the sociological determinant of voting, a line of thought created to understand electoral behaviour in Cameroon. In order to understand the related logics, a qualitative study was conducted based on a review of the political science literature on explanatory models of voting. Results of this study showed that electoral behaviour at the local level is no longer fixed and is not necessarily a function of political parties. Voters are more informed, more realistic and less predictable. This situation is sustained by the political context, as voters seem to be more aware of issues at stake because they are more directly concerned than in the past and feel solely responsible for their future and their fate with the disengagement of the State in most sectors of the Cameroon economy through decentralisation.

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Objective: The main objective of this article is to Investigate the methods used to punish children who engage in unacceptable behaviors and practices in the Nso community. Method: The methodology for this research was informed by the interpretative or constructivist paradigm. The qualitative methodology for this study was ethnography given that the aim was to describe the cultural factors that underpin the beliefs and practices related to the methods of punishing children in the Banso community. Data collection methods were ethnographic techniques that included observation, in-depth interviews, focus groups discussions, informal conversation, life histories and visual images. Direct and participant observations were used in the collection of data on punishment methods for children. Direct observations were also used to focus on child raising practices and education initiatives for children. Attention was focused on punishment practice traditional methods, the behaviour of children and parents in various contexts. Results: This article presents the sociocultural nomination of crimes in Nso community and the different customary punishments methods. Finally, the consequences of society’s perceptions and impressions on traditional methods of punishment play a major role. From the preceding analysis, it is noticed that the Nso ethnic community is doing everything at its level to preserve their traditional methods of punishing children likewise western prescriptions that do well to kick against corporal punishment. This fact results in an almost endless variety of acts and characteristics qualifying as deviant depending on conditions and circumstances. Debates over prostitution, gambling, nudism, cheating and medical quackery, arise from conflicts between norms about such acts. Just as some people consider some acts as deviant, others also become so classified. Social types perceived by some as deviants include reckless drivers, pacifists, racists, “hippie” radicals, ...