UCSP Q2 Kinship, Marriage & Family PDF

What is your ideal family? KINSHIP – refers to human relationship, that is, a person’s relationship by blood or marriage to another person or others. It creates a network of social relationship that are basic and essential in the lives of most humans in most societies. A. KINSHIP BY BLOOD - Kins...

What is your ideal family? KINSHIP – refers to human relationship, that is, a person’s relationship by blood or marriage to another person or others. It creates a network of social relationship 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. Kinship by blood - 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 – the kinship by marriage or the 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 AND POLYGAMY 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 – is 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 their 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. COMPADRAZGO – godparenthood 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- is a family group consisting of a pair of adults, and their offspring, regardless of the number, as nuclear family may have any number of children. Also called as conjugal family. EXTENDED FAMILY- Is that which extends beyond the immediate family, the basic example of which is a married couple and their children that live with either the husband or the wife’s parents. RECONSTITUTED FAMILY- is 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 their previous relationships. 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 the joining of forces of political families, political alliances may be created by the collaboration among some political parties.