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Urbanisation affecting family relationships
THE TWO-DAY national seminar on ?Marriage, Family-Challenges, Charges and Trends? concluded here on Monday with a resolution that efforts would be made to create awareness among people about the changing phenomenon of Indian families and also about women?s rights.
THE TWO-DAY national seminar on “Marriage, Family-Challenges, Charges and Trends” concluded here on Monday with a resolution that efforts would be made to create awareness among people about the changing phenomenon of Indian families and also about women’s rights.
Addressing the valedictory session, Dr N Sharma said the families in the past 200 years responding to industrialisation and urbanization had become smaller in size with lesser number of children and kinship had become less important.
The changed phenomenon has led the sociologists to redefine the family and marriage system as a whole. No doubt, family system is still stronger in the Indian society but changes have been affecting the family ties, which have become a matter of serious study for the sociologists, he said.
Dr Vivek Kumar Srivastava said the globalization had changed the concept of young people and they wanted to live together without getting married. This has led to disintegration of marriage as an institution.
Dr Rekha Chaubey presented a paper on “Family in the face of globalisation.”
She said, “Impact of globalization process has been so deep that extended kinship bonds but it has reduced the size of its function. The family culture has become couple-centric with less than two children. The divorce rate has also sky-rocketed and the religion and rituals have lost almost all connections with marriage, family and home.”
Aftab Alam discussed the technological changes, which affected the life of the industrial workers with special reference to Aligarh lock industry. According to his studies, competition with the MNcs has led these workers to face devastation in their indigenous industry.
Dr Ramnik Bhatty discussed the relevance of advertisement for marriages. He said during his studies he found that there were more advertisements for boys than girls, which showed that matrimonial advertisements were good for boys and not for the girls. Only for the left out girls the advertisements were made to find bridegrooms, he said.
Dr Sarla Bijapurkar discussed the “Invasion of Media into family time and parenting”. She observed in her presentation that the family in the changing urban milieu was becoming increasingly conjugal and these families have encapsulated within themselves as interactions with the wider kin have become less frequent. There was high degree of dependence within the small family unit between the spouse and the children and parents. Television has captured more time spent together as family.
Dr AL Srivastava said that the emancipation and empowerment of women was only confined to the limited section of women in the country. He said that the cumulative heritage of Hindu society had been one of the major factors for women’s problems. Besides several other eminent sociologists presented their papers on the occasion.
