USCP

• Group - composed of of two or more persons w/each other and Interacting guided by a set of norms
• Social Group - a collection of individuals who have relations with one another that make applice them werdependent to some significant degree.
• Primary group - small and characterized by Close, personal, and intimate relationship that last in extended time, maybe a lifetime perid These relationship are deeply personal and loaded with emotions
• Secondary Group - larger and less intimate. and more specialized groups where members engage in an impersonal and dogective-oriented relationship for a limited time
• In-Group - a group to which a person belongs and with which he or she feels a sense of identity.
• Out-group - a Group which are does not belong and to which he or she feel hostility
• Reference Group - a collection of people that we use as a standard of comparison for ourselves regardless of whether we are part of the group It is a group in which we compare ourselves It serves as the standard to which we base our behavior and attitudes
• Kinship - is a social institution that repers to relations formed belwen members of sovety
• Consanguineal Kinship - people who are biologically related
• Affinal Kinship - people who are related to you by the virtue of marriage.
• Descent - it refers to the origin or background of a person in terms of family or nationality
• Unilineal Descent - traces descent only through a single line of ancestors It is either from mother or father clescent but not both
• Patrilineal Descent - it appliates a person w/ a group of relatives through his or her father's side
• Matrilineal Descent - It affiliates a person w/ a group of relatives through his or her mother's side
• Bilateral Descent - descent from both the father And the mother side
• Marriage - socially approved sexual and economic union, usually between a man and a woman. It is a socially approved sexual union in that a married couple doesn't have to hide the sexual nature of their relationship.
• Monogamy - it is a form of marriage in which one man carries one woman. It is the most common and acceptable form of marriage.
• Polygamy - is a form of marriage in which one is entitled to marry many partners.
• Polygyny - is a form of marriage in which one man marries more than one woman at a given time.
• Sororal Polygyny - one man marrying at least two sisters at the same time.
• Non-sororal polygyny - one man being married to at least two women who are not related to each other at the same time.
• Polyandry - is a form of marriage in which one woman marries more than one man.
• Fraternal Polyandry - when several brothers share the same wife.
• Non-fraternal Polyandry - the husbands sharing a wife that is not related with each other.
• Endogamy - It is a rule of marriage in which the life partners are to be selected within the group.
• Exogamy - it is a rule of marriage in which an individual has to marry outside his own group. It prohibits marrying within the group.
• Post-marital residency - it is a rule which specifies where a person resides after marriage.
• Patrilocal Residence - married couples stays with or near the husband’s kin or relatives.
• Matrilocal Residence - married couples stays with or near the wife’s kin or relatives.
• Biolocal Residence - married couples stays with the husband’s or wife’s kin alternately.
• Neolocal Residence - married couples stay or build a home independently from husband’s or wife’s kin.
• Referred Marriage - happens when someone finds his/her partner through friends or relatives who act as matchmakers.
• Arranged Marriage - marriage is arranged by parents of the groom and bride.
• Compadrazgo - literally translated as “godparents”
• Nuclear Family - a family which consists only of a married couple and their child or adopted child.
• Nuclear Family - a family which consists only of a married couple and their child or adopted child.
• Blended Family - type of family where both parents have children from previous marital relationship.
• Conditionally Separated Family - type of family where a member is separated from the rest of the family in a short or limited time due to employment, sickness, in prison etc.
• Transnational Family - type of family who lives in more than one country.
• Political Dynasty - this refers to the family members who are involved in politics for several generations. It is a situation of occupying available ket positions.