Caribbean Studies Project

Acknowledgement

First, I would like to thank God for giving me the strength and health to finish this research. I want to thank my teacher for giving me advice and the necessary resources needed for the study. I also want to thank my sister for providing guidelines and tips for the study. Last but not least I want o thank my friends who shared ideas with me. They were helpful that when we combined and discussed together, we had this task done.

Introduction

Globalization is not a new phenomenon, though it may have assumed new dimensions towards the end of the last century with the invention of new technologies, which have recreated a world where "shrinking space, shrinking time and disappearing borders are linking people's lives more deeply, more intensively, more immediately than ever before". In the Portmore community with breathtaking developments in communication and transportation technologies, the community has become "a global village" where our daily lives are significantly influence by products, services and images originating from other countries and other cultures. However, as interdependence increases, some cultural values are increasingly dominating others.

The Portmore community comprises of families sharing a limited territorial area as a base for carrying out many of the activities of family members. The survival of the community is a large extent dependent on the strength of relationship are usually children who's "friendship are translated into mothers" friendship, and these, in turn, into family friendships.

Family members in the Portmore community visit each other and participate in social activities organized in the community. These social activities are gradually being eroded by globalization. With globalization, that glorifies high mobility the survival and stability of the Portmore community are seriously threatened. The family values in the Portmore community can only survive in the global village if the family institutions are intact, because of the advent of globalization.

PROBLEM STATEMENT

To examine how globalization have contributed to a loss of family values in the Portmore community.

STATEMENT OF PROBLEM

The genesis of this research paper is to explore how Globalization has contributed in the erosion of family values. The growth of free trade and an open market place have brought with it a drastic change among the family. It is argued by critics that the family is the corner stone of the society and its main purpose is to transfer norms and values to the wider society. The advent of Globalization has brought with it the rise in Juvenile Delinquency and host of other problems that have spill over in the society.

Finally, the research paper will provide an explanation to the root of the problem and to give the reader a general idea of how these social ills have impacted our society negatively.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

 What is Globalization?

 To examine the impact of Globalization in the Portmore community

 To highlight some of the possible reasons for the loss of family values through Globalization in Portmore

 To investigate possible solutions for the loss of family values through Globalization in Portmore

Educational Value

This study is design to inform and to educate the society about the consequences which globalization has on family values. The study also extends to address the nature and value of the underlying issues, which individuals within society fail to understand.

Finally, the study will serve to educate the general reader with in dept analysis and highlighting possible measures to eliminate the problem at hand.

Definition of Key Terms

 Globalization- This is a process of interaction and integration among people.

 Family values- These are political and social beliefs that hold the nuclear family to be the essential ethical and moral unit of the society.

 Traditional values- These refer to those beliefs, moral codes, and mores that are passed down from generation to generation.

 Dominant culture- This in a society refers to the established language, religion, behavior, values, rituals, and social customs.

 Juvenile delinquency- This refers to children who act against the law.

 Self- identity- this refers to an individual's perception of "self" in relation to any number of characteristics, such as academics (and nonacademic's), gender roles and sexuality, racial identity, and many others.

 Integration- this is the action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community.

 Commercialization- in its original meaning is the practices, methods, aims, and spirit of commerce or business.

 Intellectual imperialism- refers to the unjustified and ultimately counterproductive tendency in intellectual/scholarly.

Literature Review

Globalization is a process of interaction and integration among the people of different nations, which is driven by international trade and investment and aided by information technology. Over the last 30 years, the Portmore community has been experiencing a loss of family values more than ever due to the negative impacts of globalization that have deep rooted impacted on the community.

Sociologist Karl Marx (2000) states that family relations have been replace by money relations. Money relations have significantly leaded to a loss of family values. By extension, secularism radicalism, cynical liberalism and commercialization, which are pillars of globalization, have indeed displaced the organic Portmore family values.

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