Kinship

Kinship

refers to the “web of social relationships” that humans form as part of a family, which is the smallest unit of society.

Ferraro and Andreatta (2010)

defined family as “a social and economic unit that consists of one or more parents and their children.”

Family

should have at least one child.

– one of the most crucial elements of a family is the existence of children.

A family can have one or more parents.

– in the society that you grow up in, a family usually consists of two parents―a father and a mother.

A family can have parents who are not married.

although the marriage of parents is important in religious countries such as the Philippines, it is not a prerequisite in other societies.

A family can have parents with same sex.

- although same sex marriage is illegal in most countries including the Philippines, some societies allow for the marriage of individuals with the same sex.

A family is a socioeconomic unit.

- what makes a group of individuals a family is their dependency on one another with regard to their social and economic activities.

Nuclear family

it is composed of a husband/father, and his wife/mother, and their child/children in the union recognized by the society.

• family or orientation (born and raised)

• family of procreation (adopt)

Any individual belongs to two kinds of families:

Extended family

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

Reconstituted family

– the current spouses were previously married and had children, and upon the dissolution of their previous marriages, these individuals remarried and created a new family by bringing in their children from their past marriages and often birthing their own.

Patrilocal residence

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

Matrilocalresidence

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

Bilocal/Ambilocal residence

– provides the newlywed couple the freedom to select where to reside, i.e., near the husband’s or wife’s area.

Neolocal residence

– permits the newlywed couple to reside independently of their parents.

Avunculocal residence

– prescribes that the newlywed couple reside with or near the maternal uncle of the husband.

 

Natalocal residence

– this arrangement allows both spouses to remain with their own households after marriage.

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 his/her father and mother.

Patriarchal family

– is 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

– is one in which authority is vested in the mother or the mother’s kin.

Equalitarian

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

Monogamy

– permits the man to have only one spouse at any time.

Polygamy

is plural marriage.

polyandry

Wife with many hsubands

Polygny

Husbands with many wifes

political dynasty

refers to the continuous political rule of one family.

political alliances are also created, which is based not on agreed political ideologies or platforms but more on a pseudo kinship basis