Kinship, Marriage and Household PDF

Here is the transcription of the document in markdown format: # KINSHIP, MARRIAGE AND THE HOUSEHOLD ## KINSHIP - Refers to human relationships, that is, a person's relationship by blood or marriage to another person or others. - It creates a network of social relationships that are basic and esse...

Here is the transcription of the document in markdown format: # KINSHIP, MARRIAGE AND THE HOUSEHOLD ## KINSHIP - Refers to human relationships, that is, a person's relationship by blood or marriage to another person or others. - It creates a network of social relationships that are basic and essential in the lives of most humans in most societies. ### A. KINSHIP BY BLOOD - Kinship patterns basically include people related either by descent or by marriage. - Refers to relationship by descent, that is, the relationship that arises in one's group of origin (descent group) or that which refers to genetic relatedness. #### Kinds of Kinship by Blood: **CONSANGUINITY** - relationship by blood or by descent of the same ancestor, and is related to genealogy - a line of descent directly traceable from an ancestor. **PATRILINEAL** - kinships is reckoned through his or her father's line of descent. **MATRILINEAL** - kinship is seen through his or her mother's line of descent. **BILATERAL** - most common form of descent pattern that traces kinship both from the mother's and the father's line of descent. ### B. KINSHIP BY MARRIAGE **MARRIAGE** - A socially or ritually recognized union or legal contract between spouses that establishes rights and obligations between them. **AFFINITY** - Human relation through marriage **ENDOGAMY** - The social rule which states the a partner must be selected from a person's own social group. **EXOGAMY** - The rule which proclaims that a partner must be chosen from a group different from one's own. **MONOGAMY** - Refers to the marriage of one woman to one man at a time. **SERIAL MONOGAMY** - if remarriage is allowed following divorce or death of a partner. **POLYGAMY** - The custom of having more than one legal spouse at the same time. #### TYPES OF POLYGAMY **POLYGYNY** - If a man is married to more than one wife at a time. **POLYANDRY** - when it is woman who is married to more than one spouse (husband) at a time. #### POST-MARITAL RESIDENCY RULES Refer to the conventional rules or patterns of behavior concerning the place a married couple live after marriage. **TYPE OF POST-MARITAL RESIDENCY** 1. **PATRILOCAL** - the married couple's normal residence is with or near the husband's patrilineal kinsmen. 2. **MATRILOCAL** - The married couple's normal residence is with or near the wife's patrilineal kinsmen. 3. **AVUNCULOCAL** - The married couple's normal residence is with or near the maternal uncle (mother's brother) or the husband's other male matrilineal kinsmen. 4. **BILOCAL** - The couple establishes its residence optionally with or near the parents of either spouse. 5. **AMBILOCAL** - The married couple shifts periodically from residence with husband's groups to residence with wife's group. 6. **NEOLOCAL** – The couple's normal residence is apart from the relatives of both spouses. 7. **DUOLOCAL** - The couple has no common household as the husband and the wife remain in their respective natal groups. 8. **MATRI-PATRILOCAL** - The newlyweds initially live with the wife's group for a short period of time, usually for one year or until the birth of the first child. Afterward, the couple's residence is shifted permanently to the husband's group. ### C. KINSHIP BY RITUAL - In some societies, kinship relationships extend to people an individual has religious, economic, or political relationship with or other kinds of social ties such as friendship. ### D. FAMILY AND HOUSEHOLD - Family refers to a group of people living together and functioning as a single household, usually consisting of parents and their children. #### TYPES OF FAMILY **NUCLEAR FAMILY** - Consisting of a pair of adults, and their offspring, regardless of thenumber, as nuclear family may have any number of children. Also called as conjugal family. **EXTENDED FAMILY** - Extends beyond the immediate family, the basic example of which is a married couple and his children that live with either the husband or the wife's parents. **RECONSTITUTED FAMILY** - Formed by the joining of two adults through marriage, cohabitation, or civil partnership, in which either one or both of the adults have a child or children from a previous relationship living in their home. **TRANSNATIONAL FAMILY** - Are those which "adopt separate living arrangement in two or more countries but retain close links with their homeland" and also called separated families. ### E. POLITICSAL KINSHIP - Kinship relations may extend to people an individual or a family has political affiliation with. **POLITICAL DYNASTY** - May refer to the system of succession of political leaders from the same family or clan that maintains power for may generations. **POLITICAL ALLIANCE** - As political parties may be formed by joining of forces of political families, political alliances may be created by the collaboration among some political parties. ### TASK: On a short bond paper, illustrate your ideal family through a drawing or a sketch. Below it, write a brief explanation.