Pre-Natal Sex Identification and the Social Reaction

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INTRODUCTION

             Nowadays our technology is becoming very faster. In previous ages, there was no way to know child identity before birth. But in the present days there are many technological methods to know children identity before their birth. One term of this technology is Ultarsonography. This technique helps to determine fetal gender by ultrasound more reliably from about 16 weeks onwards and medical reasons for fetal gender detection are X-linked disorders, ambiguity of genitalia, and assignment of zygosity in twin pregnancy. Though our technologies are developing very faster, the people of our society are not able to develop their mind in the same speed. Our research project is about “Pre-natal sex identification through ultrasonography: the social construction of gender across religion”. After this research we come to know about what people are thinking about their child, what kind of baby (boy or girl) they want, what are their emotions after knowing their baby’s sex identity etc. Mainly the research helps us to understand the people’s reaction over different gender.

Objectives

              Our main objective of doing this research is to get ideas about the gender identity. Gender is basically a social classification based on one’s identity, presentation of social behavior and interaction with others. We learn gender through the process of socialization. For many people this process begins before they are even born.

              In the past, women got less priority than men. In most part of the world, women were looked at as less worth than men. But nowadays women are not ignored in the society. They are participating everywhere and getting chance to make them educated.

              In our research, we have found that both the couples of our research are the modern people. They haven’t discriminated between the different genders. They preferred both equally and they had no other plan for the individuals.

Method

              The method we’ve used in this study is the qualitative method. We know qualitative method is the method where we focus on the behavior of people in groups, organizations and communities and this method also provides information about how those people understand their own behavior. In short, qualitative research mainly focuses on the expression and interaction of a person.

               In our research, we have taken interviews of two couples; one is the Muslim couple named Sharif Jahangir; 41 years old and Rokeya Ripa; 38 years old. The other is the Hindu couple named Sourav Sarkar; 31 years old and Moumita Sarkar; 26 years old. First of all, we moved to PG hospital where we found the Muslim Couple. The husband was the journalist and the wife was the housewife. After that we moved to square hospital where we found the Hindu couple. The husband was a businessman and the wife couldn’t give any details as they were newly married. When we had taken their interviews, our main focus was on their facial expressions. We had tried to understand how they were feeling during the interview; whether happy or dizzy. We have used some questions related to our topic and asked them. At that time we were aware that our questions don’t hurt them. So we had said them before the interview that if any of our questions disturbed them, we would skip that question. We also asked for the permission of recording the interview and we got the positive answer. After getting all the details what we wanted through the interview, it is the time to analyze the questions.

Findings

              We have used qualitative method for our research. So we have used a checklist where there were some particular questions asked to the couples.