Is a socially accepted relations that defines the relationship of individuals linked and developed by blood, marriage ties, culturally accepted rituals and legal adoption.
Types of Kinship
Kinship by blood
Kinship by marriage
Kinship by rituals
Family and the household
Politics in kinship
Kinship by blood or Consanguineal kinship
It refers to the relationship by descent which refers to biological relations or by marriage.
Descent
refers to biological relations or by marriage.
Principles of Descent
Unilineal descent
Bilateral or nonunilineal descent
Unilineal descent
is usually traced through a single line of ancestors from either male or female.
Forms of Unilineal descent
Matrilineal
Patrilineal
Bilateral or nonunilineal descent
is a kinship based on both male and female line of ancestors.
Kinship by marriage or Affinal kinship
Refers to the type of relations developed when marriage takes place.
Marriage
a special contract of permanent union between a man and a woman entered into accordance with law for the establishment of conjugal and family life.
Marriage
is a culture, a specific social institution where two individuals enter a family life and make an official declaration of their lifetime union as married couples.
Forms of Marriage
Endogamy marriage
Exogamy marriage
Monogamy marriage
Polygamy marriage
Endogamy
This is a compulsory marriage of two individuals within their own particular group.
Exogamy or Out marriage
This is a marriage where an individual is mandated to marry someone outside his/her own group who came into a different social category as his/hers.
Monogamy
practice of marrying only once in a lifetime.
Monogamy
This comes from the Greek words monos (one or single) and gamos (union, marriage) which literally mean “one union or marriage.” This means that a spouse cannot have more than one spouse aside from her original spouse.
Monos
Greek word that means one or single.
Gamos
Greek word that means union or marriage.
Polygamy
This refers to a marriage where a spouse can have more than one spouse. Poly is a Greek word which means “many."
Poly
Greek word that means many.
Kinds of Polygamy
Polygyny
Polyandry
Polygyny
(the husband has multiple wives), this is the common practice of Muslims.
Polyandry
(the wife has multiple husband), it was a custom in India during the ancient times.
Referred marriage
is an act where the life partner came from referrals of friends or relatives.
Matchmakers
are those who help their single friends or relatives in finding a life partner.
Arranged or Fixed marriage
this is done to man and the woman to assure that the groom or bride will marry the most appropriate person according the rules set by the family, community, or religious group.
Arranged of fixed marriage includes the following:
Child marriage
Exchange marriage
Diplomatic marriage
Modern arranged marriage
Child marriage
Refers to marriage that will be completed in the future time set by the parents of the children involved.
Exchange marriage
a form of marriage where there is a reciprocal exchange of spouses between two groups.
Diplomatic marriage
occurs when the arrangement of marriage happens between two royal or political families to establish political or diplomatic alliances.
Modern arranged marriage
The parents choose several possible mates for the child, sometimes with the help of the child.
Forms of Rules of Residence
Patrilocal residence
Matrilocal residence
Biolocal residence
Neolocal residence
Avuncolocal residence
Patrilocal residence
occurs when the married couple stays with or near the husband’s kin or relatives.
Matrilocal residence
occurs when the married couple stays with or near the wife’s kin or relatives.
Biolocal residence
happens when the couple stays with the husband’s kin or the wife’s kin alternately.
Neolocal residence
happens when the couple stays or build a home independently from the husband or wife’s kin.
Avuncolocal residence
occurs when the couple resides with or near the maternal uncle of the groom.
Kinship by rituals
it is also called compadrazgo.
Kinship by rituals
This is a system of fictive kinship that originates in the Medieval Catholic Church in Europe.
Kinship by rituals
People in this kinship are these what we call ninong (godfather), ninang(godmother), kumare (femalegodparent), kumpare (malegodparent), and inaanak (godsonorgoddaughter). The Philippines practices this kind of kinship.