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• Kinship


  Relations formed between members of society
• Marriage


  A social institution where two persons, a man and a woman, enter into a family life
• Household


  A social institution that refers to relations formed between members of society
• Types of kinship


  • Consanguineal kinship (kinship based on blood)
  • Affinal kinship (kinship based on marriage)
  • Kinship by rituals (e.g. compradrazgo)
• Consanguineal kinship


  Kinship based on blood, considered the most basic and general form of relations
• Descent


  Biological relationship and an individual's child's offspring or his or her parents and ancestry
• Lineage


  The line where one's descent is traced, can be through paternal or maternal line or both
• Principles of descent


  • Unilineal descent (traced through a single line of ancestors)
  • Bilateral descent (traced through both ancestral lines of mother and father)
• Unilineal descent


  Descent traced through either the male or female line
• Patrilineal


  Descent traced through the male line
• Matrilineal


  Descent traced through the female line
• Affinal kinship


  Kinship based on marriage, new forms of social relations developed when marriage occurs
• Marriage is a special contract of permanent union between a man and a woman entered into in accordance with law for the establishment of conjugal and family life
• Types of marriage


  • Endogamy (compulsory marriage within own group)
  • Exogamy (marriage outside own group)
  • Monogamy (one partner)
  • Polygamy (multiple partners)
• Postmarital residency rules


  Rules of residence or location of couple's permanent residence after marriage
• Forms of postmarital residency

  • Patrilocal (stay with husband's relatives)
  • Matrilocal (stay with wife's relatives)
  • Bilocal (alternate between husband's and wife's relatives)
• Referred marriage


  Marriage where matchmakers help find possible husband or wife
• Arranged marriage


  Marriage where parents, community leaders, or religious officials determine the marital partner
• Types of arranged marriage

  • Child marriage
  • Exchange marriage
  • Diplomatic marriage
  • Modern arranged marriage
• Compradrazgo is a ritualized form of forging co-parenthood or family
• Family


  The basic unit of social organization, made up of a group of individuals linked by marriage, blood, or adoption
• Definitions of family by sociologists and anthropologists

  • George Peter Murdock's definition
  • Kingsley Davis' definition
  • Talcott Parsons' definition
  • Bronislaw Malinowski's definition
• Theoretical perspectives on family

  • Structural functionalism theory
  • Conflict theory
  • Symbolic interactionism
• Nuclear family


  Family made up of a couple and their biological or adopted children
• Extended family


  Family whose members go beyond the nuclear family, including single nuclear, two or more nuclear, or with other related members
• Blended or reconstituted family


  Family where parents have children from previous marital relationships but all members form a new family unit
• The United Nations defines family within a household as those members related through blood, adoption, or marriage
• The United Nations defines one-person household as an arrangement where one person makes provision for their own essentials, and multi-person household as a group of two or more persons living together and making common provision for essentials