What are the visible effects of globalization on family, marriage and kinship system? Analyse with reference to the Indian society.

Family

• More urban households are nuclear in residence, while duty to parents continues through money and phone contact rather than a shared kitchen.
• Dual-earner couples and delayed childbearing are visible in metropolitan professional families that work in global services.
• Care of the old is partly marketised through paid helpers and private hospitals, which older joint families did inside the house.
• Transnational families appear when a member works in the Gulf or the West and the household is split across borders.

Marriage

• The average age at marriage has risen where girls stay longer in school and in paid work.
• Choice and dating exist beside arranged marriage; many matches are now “arranged-cum-choice” through family and apps.
• Inter-caste and inter-religious marriages remain a minority, yet they are more visible in cities and in law, including the Special Marriage Act.
• Wedding consumption has become a global-style market of hotels and display, which raises cost and status competition.

Kinship

• Caste and gotra still organise many alliances, so kinship has not disappeared.
• Kin networks are used for urban housing, migration, and start-up capital, which is kinship as an economic resource in a global labour market.
• Lineage rituals may shrink in daily life and still return at death, marriage, and festival, which is selective kinship rather than end of kinship.

Together

• Globalization has stretched the household across cities and countries without fully replacing caste alliance or parental duty.
• The analysis is that form has become more nuclear and more mobile, while the kinship grammar of match and care is rewritten, not erased.