(Research Journal Social Sciences, Panjab University, 2016) Dutta, Sumedha
It has often been hypothesized that the sanctity associated with
family values in India is not far from perishing. This argument
implicitly lays claims to the idea that with growing urbanization
and industrialization, people spend increasingly less amounts of
quality time with their families. In this context, this paper would
attempt at unraveling the sustained significance of 'family time' in
the lives of city dwellers. It would help in assessing the diverse
meanings, which educated urbanites impute to the concept of
'family time', in the metropolitan cities of Delhi and Chandigarh.
The study unveils how the trends of development, and modern
work culture, have in fact created a situation whereby the family is
becoming one of the major factors of stress relief in the busy and
frenzied schedule of urban existence.
