Mexican family in the era of globalized information

Abstract

The Mexican family in the era of globalized information, a study on the transformation of family’s social representation on the ones who play the role of sons and daughters generated by cultural industry in the Federal District is methodological research supported by the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of UNAM, DGAPA and Research and Innovation Projects Support Program.

The result evidences that the sample studied opts to solitude and individualism, though they consider very important “to have a life plan”, it gives the same value to “yourself” and most of their media consumption is “alone”, indicators that are reinforced when reasoning as some, few or not important “to make a family,” “having a partner” and “having children” in the short term, because their priorities are academic and employment goals because their immediate aspirations are to get trained and earn money to purchase goods or material pleasures.

The sample recognizes family as an institution that only works for “the transmission of values and principles” and, in a lower way, that “guides the actions of the individual”, that is an “agent of social and economic protection” and that “conveys them religious beliefs”.