kinship

• Kinship


  Family ties and the relationships between individuals who are related by blood or marriage
• Blood


  Kinship by blood, also referred to as Consanguineal Kinship; achieved by birth or blood affinity
• Marriage


  A bond/commitment between a man and a woman, strongly connected with love, tolerance, support, and harmony
• Household


  Composed of one or more people who occupy a housing unit
• Not all households contain families. Family households consist of two or more individuals who are related by birth, marriage, or adoption, although they also may include other unrelated people
• Kinship by blood


  Also referred to as Consanguineal Kinship; achieved by birth or blood affinity (parents and their children, siblings, nieces and nephews, aunts and uncles)
• Lineage


  A group of people who are related to each other as the direct descendants of a particular ancestor
• Consanguinity


  The characteristic of having a kinship with a relative who is descended from a common ancestor
• Types of descent


  • Unilineal
  • Patrilineal
  • Matrilineal
  • Double Unilineal and Bilateral
• Unilineal Descent


  Traces descent only through a single line of ancestors, male or female
• Patrilineal Descent


  An individual's clan or lineage group is determined through men or male relatives
• Matrilineal Descent


  A line of descent from a female ancestor to a descendant of either gender in which the individuals in all intervening generations are mothers
• Double Unilineal Descent


  Society recognizes both the patrilineage and the matrilineage but assigns to each a different set of expectations
• Kinship by Marriage


  Also referred to as Affinal Kinship; developed when marriage occurs; the married couple forms new relationship with each other and also develop relations with each other's family
• Monogamy


  The marriage or sexual partnering custom or practice where an individual has only one male or female partner
• Polygamy


  The practice of having more than one partner in union or sexual mate
• Polygyny


  A marriage between a man and multiple women
• Polyandry


  A marriage between a woman and multiple men
• Residency Patterns


  Cultural norms, or common ways of life, related to where couples locate upon marriage, particularly when it comes to their dependence on and proximity to their families of origin
• Patrilocal Residency


  A married couple resides with or near the husband's parents
• Matrilocal Residency


  A married couple resides with or near the wife's parents
• Ambilocal Residency


  A newly married couple has the choice of living with or near the groom's or the bride's family
• Neolocal Residency


  A newly married couple resides separately from both the husband's natal household and the wife's natal household
• Family


  A group of people living together and functioning as a single household, usually consisting of parents and their children
• Nuclear Family


  A family group consisting of parents and their children (one or more), typically living in one home residence
• Extended Family


  A family that includes parents and children and other relatives (as grandparents, aunts, or uncles) in the same household