Kinship and Household

• KINSHIP

  ● System of Social Organization

  ● Relationship between members of the family

  ● Shared characteristics

  ● How individuals are related to each other
• KINSHIP FORMATION

  1. Kinship by Blood (Consanguineous)

  ● possible thru blood relatedness

  ● biological parents and siblings are kin

  2. Kinship by Marriage (Affinal)

  ● possible by marriage

  3. Kinship by Ritual (Compadrazgo)

  ● made official thru ritual

  ● examples are godparenthood and fraternal orders
• Marriage

  ➔ A legally recognized social contract between two

  people, traditionally based on sexual relationship
• Types of Marriage

  ➔ Monogamy- marriage where one individual is committed

  to another individual

  ➔ Polygamy- marriage where an individual has multiple

  spouses

  ➔ Polyandry- woman has sexual relations with more than

  one man

  ➔ Polygyny man has sexual relations with more than one

  woman
• POST MARITAL RESIDENCES

  ● It refers to the forms of households formed by a

  married couple
• POST MARITAL RESIDENCES

  ● Neolocal - couple finds their own house, independent from all family

  members

  ● Patrilocal - married couple lives with the husband’s parents

  ● Matrilocal - couple resides with the wife’s parents

  ● Ambilocal - married couple has the choice of living with or near the

  groom's or the bride's family

  ● Duolocal - married couple lives separately, husband and wife

  remains in their natal homes
• TYPES OF FAMILIES

  ● Nuclear - composed of married couple and their children

  ● Extended - a nuclear family joined by immediate family members

  ● Single Parent - a family where single parent raises children

  ● Grandparent Family - a family that is headed by the grandparents

  ● Same-sex - a family whose parents are in homesexual relationship

  ● Transnational - family whose members are separated and resides in

  different countries

  ● Step-Family - families where one or both members who have

  children from previous relationships