Identification (10)

Family

Plays a very important role in the life of any nation.

Familial institution

This is the system that regulates, stabilizes, and standardizes sexual relations and the reproduction of children.

Educational institution

This is basically the systematized process of socialization occurring informally in the home and in the general cultural environment, and formally in the complex education arrangements of the society.

Economic institution

This is the configuration of patterned social behaviors through which material goods and services are provided for the society.

Political institution

This functions primarily to satisfy the need for general administration and public order in society.

Religious institution

This is the institution that satisfies man’s basic social need for a relationship with God.

Recreational institution

This fulfills the social need for physical and mental relaxation

Nuclear family

This is also known as the primary or elementary family.

Extended family

This is composed of two or more nuclear families related to each other economically and socially.

Conjugal family

This classification stresses on the marriage bond, which is the couple and their children while relatives are comparatively less or unimportant.

Consanguineal family

This classification, on the other hand, puts stress on the nucleus of blood relatives, the blood kin, than the couple.

Patrilocal family

requires that the newly married couple live with the family of the bridegroom or near the residence of the parents of the bridegroom.

Matrilocal family

requires that the newlywed couple live with or near the residence of the bride’s parents.

Bilocal family

provides the newlywed couple the freedom to select where to reside, that is, near the groom’s or the bride’s parents.

Neolocal family

permits the newlywed couple to reside independently of their parents.

Avunlocal family

prescribes that the newlywed couple resides with or near the maternal uncle of the groom.

Patrilineal descent

affiliates a person with a group of relatives related to him/her through his/her father.

Matrilineal descent

affiliates a person with a group of kinsmen related to him/her through the mother.

Bilateral descent

affiliates a person with a group of kinsmen related to him/her through both the father and mother.

Patriarchal family

one in which authority is vested in the oldest male member, often the father, or grandfather, or in the absence of parents, on the oldest male member.

Matriarchal family

one in which authority is vested in the elder of the mother’s kin.

Equalitarian family

one where the husband and wife exercise a more or less equal amount of authority.

Matricentric family

one where the absence of the father who may be working gives the mother a dominant position in the family.

Monogamy

allows a man to have only one wife at a time.

Polygamy

plural marriage

Sexual regulation

The family regulates the sexual behavior of people in any given society

Biological reproduction

All societies need to reproduce their members.

Socializing children

The family is responsible not only for producing children but also for ensuring that their children are encouraged to accept the lifestyle it favors, to master the skills it values, and to perform the work it requires.