KINSHIP

• KINSHIP

  - the web of social relationships, human form as part of a family which is the smallest unit in society.
• Exogamy - marrying outside one's own group; endogamy - marrying within one's own group.
• MARRIAGE

  - 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.
• Polygyny - having more than one wife at the same time.
• KINSHIP BY BLOOD

  links individuals based on their genetic relations.
•  Patrilineal – family that traces its ancestry from the paternal or father’s side.
• Matrilineal – family that traces its ancestry from the maternal or mother’s side.
• Bilineal – family that traces its ancestry from both paternal and maternal side.
• KINSHIP BY MARRIAGE

  when a person marries, he establishes relationship not only with the girl whom he married but also with a number of other people in the girl’s family.
•  Monogamy – marriage in which there is only one wife and one husband at a time.
• Polyandry – a form of marriage in which one woman may have more than one husband at a time.
• Polygamy – any form of marriage in which a person may have more than one spouse at a time
• Polygyny – a form of marriage in which a man may have more than one wife at a time
• Group Marriage – wherein the family unit consists of multiple husbands and multiple wives
• · ENDOGAMY

  • it is a rule of marriage in which the life-partners are to be selected within the group and the group may be caste, class, tribe, race, village, religious group etc.
• · EXOGAMY

  • it is a rule of marriage in which an individual has to marry outside his own group.
• KINSHIP BY RITUAL

  • is a privileged social relationship established by ritual, such as that of Godparents or fraternal orders
•  COMPADRAZGO-  A very famous ritual kinship is the
•  Nuclear family

  – a family unit that consists of a single couple or monogamous family, that is the husband, wife and their child or children.
• Extended family

  – a family unit that consists of the husband and wife with their children, and their relatives like in-law (grandparents, uncle, and aunty, cousins, nice, nephews
•  Reconstituted family

  – a family unit that consists of one or both parents who have a child or children from a previous relationship or past marriage, but they have combined to form a new family often after a death of a previous spouse, or marital separation, annulment, or divorce.
• Single parent family

  – a family unit which is headed by one parent (either father or mother only) raising a child or children
• Patrilocal residence – the son stays and the daughters leaves, so that the married couple lives with or near the husband’s parents
• Matrilocal residence – the daughter stays and the son leaves, so that the married couple live or near the wife’s parents.
• Family or biological residence – either the son or the daughter leaves, so that the married couple lives with or near either the wife’s or the husband’s parents