Globalisation & the family

• Globalisation


  The increasing interconnectedness of the world
• Impacts of globalisation on the family

  • Economic change has caused manufacturing jobs to leave the UK, leading to a change in gender roles, including a possible crisis of masculinity for boys and men who no longer have clear roles
  • Immigration and an increasingly multicultural society has contributed to changes in the structure of the family and family diversity
  • The globalisation of popular culture includes significant technological change, transforming the media, which has had an impact on childhood, creating a toxic childhood
  • Social media and other technological changes have also allowed families to keep in close contact despite large geographical distances (including extended family in other countries)
• Perhaps the most significant economic and social change in recent decades has been globalisation: the increasing interconnectedness of the world