Kinship, Marriage, and the Household PDF

Unit 6: Lesson 1: Kinship, Marriage, and the Household Kinship -Means relationship based on blood or marriage. -Society defines the nature of kinship interaction by determining which kin are more socially important than others. Types Of Kin 1. Fictive Kinship- people who are not related by b...

Unit 6: Lesson 1: Kinship, Marriage, and the Household Kinship -Means relationship based on blood or marriage. -Society defines the nature of kinship interaction by determining which kin are more socially important than others. Types Of Kin 1. Fictive Kinship- people who are not related by blood or marriage. 2.Consanguineal kin- kinship based on bloodline. 3. Affinal kin- kinship based on marriage  Kinship ✔Can refer both to the patterns of social relationships themselves. √ Can refer to the study of the patterns of social relationships in one or more human cultures. Kinship by blood A. Descent- membership depends on common descent from a real or mythical ancestor. Cognatic descent Descendants of an ancestors who enjoy membership of a common descent group by virtue of any combination of male and female linkages. Kinship by Marriage Marriage is an institution that admits men and women to family life. -is a formal prescription which defines the rights, duties and priveledges of husband and wife with respect to each other, their children, their relatives, and the society as a whole. Types of marriage in Sociology 1.POLYGAMY Polygamy marriage of a man to several women. Polygyny is a form of marriage on which one man marries more than one woman at a given time. Polyandry is the marriage of one woman with more than one man. It is less common than polygyny. 2.MONOGAMY Monogamy is a form of marriage in which one man marries one woman. It is the most common and acceptable form of marriage. Serial monogamy happens when an individual is allowed to marry again after the death of the first spocise or after divorce.but they cannot have more than one spouse at one and the same time. 3.GROUP MARRIAGE Group Marriage is a type of marriage of two or more women with or more than. Here the husbands are common husbands and wives are common wives. Children are regarded as the children of the entire group as a whole.  KINSHIP BY RITUAL Ritual kinship in the form of god parenthood played an important role in strengthening and extending the ties of kinship as it did in much of Latin America Parents selected godparents for a child at his or her baptism confirmation and marriage. The godparents were then tied to the parents as co-parents those chosen for child's baptism were considered the most important and great care was exercised in their selection A privileged social relationship established by ritual, such as that of godparents or fraternal orders. VARIATION IN FAMILY PATTERNS A.Based on Internal Organization A Conjugal Family is a nuclear family of adult and their children (by birth or adoption)where the family relationship is principally focused inward and ties to extended kin are voluntary and based on emotional bonds rather than strict duties and obligations. The spouses and their children are considered to be of prime importance and other more distant relatives less important. The marriage bond is important stressed. An extended family is simply a family until that extends past the nuclear family to inclide other relatives such as aunts,uncles,and grandparents. It consists of two or more nuclear,families living together  B.Based on origin 1. The Family of Orientation It is a group in which we are born and reared. It is the family where everyone grows up from. 2.The Family of Pro-creation It is the family we establish when we marry and have children of our own.  C. Based on Descent 1. Patrilineal family is a group whose members traced their relationships and affeliations with relatives on the father side. 2. Matrilineal family refers to a family whose members traced the relationsh and affiliations with relatives on the nother side 3. Bilateral family refers to the family members traced the relationships and affiliations with relatives on both parents. Based on who wields power 1. Patriarchal is one in which authority vested in the oldest man member in the family, the patriarch or the father. 2. Matriarchal is one in which family authority is exercise by mother who dominates the household. 3. Egalitarian family is one where both husband and wife exercise equal amount of authority and enjoy the same rights and privileges. Based on Residence 1. Patrilocal is a family where in the newly-married couple lives with or near the home of the groom's parents. 2. Matrilocal is a family where in the newly-married couple resides with or near of the bride's parents. 3. Bilocal is a family where in the newly-weds choose to stay with either the groom or bride's parents.  4. Neolocal is a family where in the couple resides independently from either groom or bride's parent. 5. Avunculocal is a family where in the couple is prescribed to reside with or near the domicile of the maternal uncle of the groom. Politics of Kinship Kinship Politics is built based on the classic political principle "blood is thicker than water". It asserts that power should be distributed among family members. For the sake of family security, power should not be seized from those who have kinship connections and must be circulated by among those who are tied by blood. The concept is accepted by reference to the fact that politics is often replete with adversity, conflict, and betrayal, known as the Brutus syndrome.