ucspol exam

• • kinship is relationship based on blood or marriage
• fictive kinship people who are not related by blood or marriage
• Consanguineal kin kinship based on bloodline
• Affinal kin kinship based on marriage
• Descent group membership depends on common descent from a real or mythical ancestor.
• Descent group membership depends on common descent from a real or mythical ancestor.
• Cognatic descent refers to all descendants of an ancestor who enjoy membership of a common descent group by virtue of any combination of male or female linkages.
• Marriage is an institution that admits men and women to family life. It is a formal prescription which defines the rights, duties and privileges of husband and wife with respect to each other, their children, their relatives, and the society as a whole.
• religious point of view point of view of marriage that considers marriage as a sacrament and therefore it is the inviolable bond which can only be dissolved upon the death of one of the spouses
• legal view point point of view of marriage that looks at marriage as a contract entered into by a man and a woman who vow to live together as husband and wife for the discharge of their duties to each other and to the community.
• Polygamy is the marriage of a man to several women.
• Monogamy is a form of marriage in which one man marries one woman
• Group Marriage is a type of marriage of two or more women with two or more men.
• Ritual kinship in the form of godparenthood played an important role in strengthening and extending the ties of kinship
• Conjugal family is a nuclear family of adult partners and their children (by birth or adoption) where the family relationship is principally focused inward and ties to extended kin are voluntary and based on emotional bonds, rather than strict duties and obligations.
• extended family is simply a family unit that extends past the nuclear family to include other relatives such as aunts, uncles, and grandparents. It consists of two or more nuclear families living together.
• Family of Orientation is a group in which we are born and reared. It is the family where everyone grows up from.
• family of Pro-creation is the family we establish when we marry and have children of our own.
• Patrilineal family is a group whose members trace their relationships and affiliations with relatives on the father side.
• Matrilineal family refers to a family whose members trace their relationships and affiliations with relatives on the mother side.
• Bilateral family refers to a family whose Family members trace their relationships and affiliations with relatives on both parents.
• Patriarchal is one in which family authority is vested in the oldest male member of the family, the patriarch or the father.
• Matriarchal is one in which Family authority is exercised by the mother who dominates the household.
• Egalitarian is one where both husband and wife exercise equal amount of authority and enjoy the same rights and privileges.
• Patrilocal is a family where in the newly-married couple lives with or near the home of the groom's parents
• Matrilocal it's where the couple moves to live where the wife grew up; usually found with matrilineal kinship systems.
• Neolocal is a family where in the couple resides independently from either groom or bride's parent.
• Avunculocal is a family where in the couple is prescribed to reside with or near the domicile of the maternal uncle of the groom.
• Kinship politics is built based on the classic political principle "blood is thicker than water." It asserts that power should be distributed among family members.