NOVEL MAHAR CINTA GANDORIAH KARYA MARDHIYAN NOVITA M.Z: ANALISIS SOSIOLOGI SASTRA IAN WATT

This analysis on novel entitled Mahar Cinta Gandoriah by Mardhiyan Novita MZ aims to show the reflection of social issue in literature, notably the conflict issue toward a tradition. This research attempts to investigate the forms of conflict on the novel. The theory used in this research is Ian Watt�s sociology of literature which has three research focuses, there are: social context of the author, reflection of society, and social function of literature. Literary text is assumed as a product of socio-culture which reflects the life of a society. Social reality reflected on a literary text is a reality framed into a fiction. A fiction cannot be separated from the factual one. The conflict on bajupuik tradition is one of factual issue appointed on the novel. Based on the factual issue appointed on an literary work, it is inevitably that literature should be able to reflect the society and it should has a social function. The factual issue appoited on a literary text cannot be separated from its author�s social context. Social context of the author, reflection of society, and social function of literature have an intimate relation. The result of this research showed that there are some factors which influence conflict on bajupuik tradition, also the dynamics of man pricing in Minangese marriage on the novel. There are three sides in the conflict: those who doubtful against the tradition, the pro sides, and those who oppose the tradition. Those who support the practice of bajapuik tradition not necessarily detached from the problem. The man pricing on bajapuik tradition got its dilemma. Aristocratic title, education, and wealth are three main points which cannot be separated from the man pricing on bajapuik tradition. Having those three things or one or two of those three things precisely give rise to problem on the man pricing. The presence of Islam after the entrenced of bajapuik tradition also experienced a certain problem. The relation between Islam and bajapuik tradition only has two choice