¹ Assistant Professor, Dept of Anthropology, Jagannath University, Dhaka.
² Lecturer, Dept of Sociology and Anthropology, Asian University of Bangladesh, Bangladesh.

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Globalization is the acute driving force that is fundamentally restructuring the social order around the world, and families are the center of this change. The relationship between globalization and families, however, is even more profound and complex than economic or political perspectives reveal. This work is the outgrowth of the realization that globalization and families are interrelated in a manner that has not been adequately explored in conventional approaches. The major objective of this study is to find the association between changing technology and globalization and its effect on changing patterns of family relationships in the urban life of Dhaka city. For this purpose, qualitative data was collected through case study and in-depth interview with a semi-structured checklist. Respondents were selected by using purposive and snowball sampling techniques from the study sites of Dhaka city. Due to globalization and changing technology, the pattern of relationships has been changing, which is vivid in urban families. In the present study, the researchers have found that family relationship in a city like Dhaka has adopted a new changing trend that includes the relationship between husband and wife, between parents and children, between siblings and so on. While cosmopolitan lifestyle is demanding too much time away from natural social relationships, the internet is offering new forms of social relations through social networking sites that affect the pattern of our day-to-day interaction and relationships within families and society at large.