Ucsp Kinship

• Kinship 


  Refers to the "web of social relationships"
• Family


  Smallest unit of society
• Family


  It is a socioeconomic unit. Ferraro and Andreatta(2010)
• Consanguinity 


  Factor that allows an individual to identify another individual.
• Consanguinity


  It links an individual based on their genetic relations
• Consanguinity


  Referred to as descent or the socially accepted connection between an ancestor and its succeeding generation.
• Unilineal Descent


  Allows individual to be affiliated to the descent of one sex group only
• Matrilineal Descent 


  Trace kinship relationships through the females line
• Patrilineal Descent 


  an individual traces his/her kinship through the male's line only
• Patrilineal Descent

  Referred to as agnatic descent
• Matrilineal Descent

  Referred to as uterine descent
• Clan


  It is the expansion of unilineal descent group
• Phratries


  The expansion of clans into larger descent group
• Moiety


  Final type of unilineal descent
• Bilateral Descent


  Allows individual to trace kinship ties on both side of the family
• Kindred


  Nuclear family can be extended to family members of the spouses
• Marriage


  Defined as the "socially or ritually recognized union". (Haviland et al.,2011)
• Cultural variation


  Produces differing perspectives and practices of relating to marriage
• Winking, 2005 —a couple is considered if they sleep together in the same roof.
• 4 types of families


  Patrifocal and Matrifocal, Monogamous, Polygamous, Extended Family
• Patriarchal


  The rule of the father
• Matriarchal


  The rule of the mother
• Patrifocal and Matrifocal


  Focused on one parent
• Monogamous


  Consist of a single couple and their children
• Serial monogamy


  Occurs in societies where remarriage is allowed after a divorce or death
• Polygamous


  This family is consist of several parents an their children
• 2 types of polygamy


  Polyandry and polygyny
• Polyandry


  A woman is allowed to mary several men
• Fraternal Polyandry


  Marry several husbands who are at times brothers
• Polygyny


  Allows a man to mary several women
• Sororal Polygyny


  Men mary their sisters
• Extended family


  Has several married couple and their children
• Compadrazgo


  Allows for the inclusion of an individual to the family
• Reconstituted family


  Are a growing percentage of a household classification
• Reconstituted family 


  In this type of family, the current spouses were previously married and had children
• Reconstituted family 


  Concept of stepmothers and stepfathers
• Postmarital residency rules


  A couple decided to where they live
• 7 major residency

  Patrifocal, Matrifocal, avunculocal, neolocal, natalocal, matrifocal, ambilocal
• Patrilocal residence 


  The woman is expected to transfer residency of his husband
• Virilocal residence 


  Subset of patrilocal residence