Study of modernization among adolescents in relation to their gender

With the fast increasing application of science and technology and traditional thinking and the old landmarks are being radically replaced by the new norms with regard to political, social and economic ideologies and cultural aspirations among the different nations of the world. This change in society is known as modernization. The present study was undertaken to compare the magnitude of modernization among adolescent boys and girls. The sample was raised from two hundred boys and girls of class 12^th in Ludhiana and Sangrur city. It was found that the girls are more modern than their male counterparts. Also, out of 7 dimensions of modernization, mean scores difference was found to be significant in 4 dimensions namely, parent child relation, politics, marriage and religion. In all the significant cases, girls mean scores are higher than boys which again shows girls are more modern than boys.