Some Research, yea right!

This morning I was going through a blog from an ethnic region. It was from a state in Southern India, where traditionally  women may be suppressed and may not be aware that they are suppressed to some extent. Do you sense any theory behind these statements? Good, that means you are thinking and applying conflict theory! The guy was conducting a survey among few of his women friends at work. Although he could have done a real time study, he only conducted it on about 10-12 women participants willing to answer those questions.  At best it could be called a prestudy..The questions posed were

How do they address their husband, is it by name or call them by variations equivalent to calling them mister, sir etc.

 None of the women interviewed said they would call their husband by name, at least in public.

Other questions were, (published in the article by Ramana Kumar in Telugu language, from the website www.vihanga.com a web magazine for women (or men) dealing with womens’ issues in India)

Do you touch your husband’s feet as a matter to show reverence during festivals or prayers?  Traditionally Indian women consider their husband as equivalent to God, at least so to speak in the rituals where they  consider the husband as “pati-dev” (pati means husband, and dev means God)

 Do you ever spank your husband?

Does he ever touch your feet ?

The very fact that this guy wanted to conduct this study, which is not totally scientific as he has not done any reviews of literature or given out the objective of the study or even proposed any hypothesis shows that his intention was not anything purely scientific. In fact the method adopted scientific technique but the analysis was very unscientific as he started talking with no particular message.

If a society has to prove itself to show that they are capable or in par with the rest of the world in progress,  there is a whole lot more to it than meets the eye.. I would definitely come back and discuss about this issue, later this week.. Meanwhile why don't you respond?