A comparative study of male and female with different socio-economic backgrounds on the variable of modernization (education, parent-child relationship, politics, status of women, marriage and socio- cultural)

Abstract

The aims of this research are to explore the gender and socioeconomic status differences among young adults on the variable of modernization (parent-child relationship, education, political, marriage, social-cultural and status of women). For this study, a sample of 400 young adults of the age group between 21-30 years from different districts of Haryana. Comprehensive modernization inventory is administrated on the subjects. Data was analysed by using ANOVA by SPSS. The results reveal that gender differences and socio–economic status differences are found among young adults on the variables of education and politics but on the variables of parent-child relationship and status of women, only gender differences were found, socio-economic status differences were not seen on both variables. On the variables of marriage and social- culture, both gender and socio-economic status differences were not found.