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What has been the impact of globalisation on the cultural aspect(s) of the family?

  • UPSC 2009
  • Systems of Kinship in India

Globalisation has altered the Indian family less in structure than in culture — the values it holds, the rituals it performs, the identities it claims and the desires it licenses. The change is not the homogenisation early accounts predicted, but a selective reworking in which global forms are absorbed and simultaneously used to reassert Indian…

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  • Values: the individualisation of choice
  • Ritual and consumption
  • Media and the transnational imaginary
  • The transnational family and the reassertion of tradition
  • Conclusion

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