Ucspol Q2

• What does kinship mean?

  Relationships based on blood or marriage
• How does society define kinship interaction?

  By determining socially important kin and expected behaviors
• What can kinship refer to?

  Patterns of social relationships or their study
• What are the types of kinship?

  1. Fictive kinship
  2. Consanguineal kin
  3. Affinal kin
• What is fictive kinship?

  Kinship among people not related by blood or marriage
• What is consanguineal kin?

  Kinship based on bloodline
• What is affinal kin?

  Kinship based on marriage
• What does kinship by blood descent mean?

  Membership based on common descent from an ancestor
• What is unilineal descent?

  Membership based on either patrilineal or matrilineal descent
• What is cognatic descent?

  Membership through any combination of male or female linkages
• What is marriage defined as?

  An institution admitting men and women to family life
• What does marriage formally prescribe?

  Rights, duties, and privileges of spouses
• What officially starts a marriage?

  The ceremony known as wedding
• What does a marital relationship involve?

  A contract defining partners' rights and obligations
• How is marriage viewed sociologically?

  As a partnership formalized by ceremony
• How is marriage viewed from a religious perspective?

  As a sacrament and inviolable bond
• How is marriage viewed from a legal perspective?

  As a contract between a man and a woman
• What are the types of marriage?

  1. Polygamy

  • Polygyny
  • Polyandry

  1. Monogamy

  • Serial monogamy

  1. Group marriage
• What is polygamy?

  Being married to more than one person
• What is polygyny?

  One man marries more than one woman
• What is polyandry?

  One woman marries more than one man
• What is monogamy?

  One man marries one woman
• What is serial monogamy?

  Marrying again after death or divorce
• What is group marriage?

  Two or more women with two or more men
• What is ritual kinship?

  • Strengthens ties through godparenthood
  • Parents select godparents for children
  • Godparents act as co-parents
• Why are godparents chosen carefully?

  They are considered important for the child
• What is expected of a godparent?

  To assist in the child's upbringing
• What is the significance of co-parents?

  They reinforce kinship ties
• What is the role of godparents in the countryside?

  They have daily social significance
• What are the variations in family patterns based on?

  1. Internal organization
  2. Origin
  3. Descent
  4. Power dynamics
  5. Residence
• What is a conjugal family?

  A nuclear family of adult partners and children
• What is an extended family?

  A family unit including other relatives
• What is the family of orientation?

  The family where one is born and reared
• What is the family of procreation?

  The family established when one marries
• What is a patrilineal family?

  A family tracing relationships through the father
• What is a matrilineal family?

  A family tracing relationships through the mother
• What is a bilateral family?

  A family tracing relationships through both parents
• What is a patriarchal family?

  A family with authority in the oldest male
• What is a matriarchal family?

  A family with authority in the mother
• What is an egalitarian family?

  A family with equal authority for both parents