UCSP

• Family


  • Social and economic unit
  • Consists of one or more parent
  • Smallest unit of society
• Several points about family

  • Socioeconomic unit
  • Can have parents who are not married
  • Can have one or more parents
  • Can have parents with same gender
  • Should have at least one child
• Types of kinship


  • Kinship by blood
  • Kinship by marriage
• Kinship by blood


  • Most basic and universal type
  • Primary kinship
  • People who are directly related
  • Based on consanguinity or blood relatives
• Types of unilineal descent

  • Matrilineal
  • Patrilineal
• Matrilineal


  • Traced through the female line
  • Connections are determined by their mother's lineage
• Patrilineal


  • Traced through the male line
  • Connections are based on father's lineage
• Bilateral descent


  • Traced their family connections on both mother's and father's side
  • They can recognize and have relationship with relatives from both sides of their family
• Kinship by marriage


  • Relationship created through marriage
  • They form a union that is recognized by society or through a legal contract
  • Union establishes rights and responsibilities
  • Involves the connections and obligations that arise from being part of a married couple and their family networks
• Functions of marriage


  • Regulates production
  • Creates system that allows for sexual division of labor
  • Providing for family dynamics that ensure the provision of children's needs
  • Perpetuating economic institutions based on the family system
• Types of family based on family system

  • Patrifocal and matrifocal
  • Monogamous
  • Polygamous
  • Extended family
  • Reconstituted family
• Patrifocal and matrifocal


  Focused on one parent: a father (patrifocal) or a mother (matrifocal)
• Monogamous


  Consists of a single couple and their child or children
• Polygamous


  • Polyandry
  • Polygyny
• Polyandry


  Woman is allowed to marry several men
• Polygyny


  Allows a man to marry several women
• Extended family


  Has several married couples and their children living in one household
• Reconstituted family


  • Divorce and legal separations
  • Current spouses were previously married and had children
• Post marital residency rules/types of residency

  • Patrilocal
  • Matrilocal
  • Avuncolocal
  • Neolocal
  • Natalocal
  • Ambilocal
  • Transnational family
• Patrilocal


  • The woman is expected to transfer to the residence of her husband's family
  • Children will be raised by husband's family and be integrated by their lineage
• Matrilocal


  • Man is expected to reside with wife's mother area where they are expected to raise their children
  • Integrate them to the maternal line
• Avuncolocal


  The couple raises their children in the household of the husband's family. Pagtanda ililipat siya sa kapatid ng nanay or tito niya para doon manirahan.
• Neolocal


  Arrangement requires both spouses to leave their households and create their own
• Natalocal


  • Allows both spouses to remain with their households after marriage
  • Mag-a-arange pa ng meeting bago magkita yong mag-asawa kasi naninirahan sila sa kaniya-kaniyang magulang
• Ambilocal


  • Allows a couple to choose to live either the wife's mother area or the husband's father area
  • Choose saan sa dalawa
• Transnational family


  • Practice alternative forms of residency pattern that are not based on lineage perpetuation but more so on economic reasons
  • Palipat-lipat ng bahay dahil sa trabaho
• Types of kinship


  • Descent system
  • Affine
  • Fictive kinship
• Descent system


  Refers to the way a society traces kinship and determines family connections
• Types of descent system

  • Consanguine
  • Lineal
  • Collateral
• Consanguine


  Connected by blood
• Lineal


  • Ascendants: someone who is related to a person or group of people who lived
  • Descendants: blood relative in the direct line of descent
• Collateral


  Relatives such as uncle, aunts, and cousins
• Affine


  Related to each other through marriage
• Types of fictive kinship

  • Adoption
  • Figurative usage
  • Ritual kinship
• Adoption


  Process whereby a person assumes parenting of another
• Figurative usage


  Individuals not connected by birth or marriage may still have a bond of kinship
• Ritual kinship


  Form of godparenthood
• Trapo


  Politicians who will do anything even resorting to traditional methods, just to win in elections
• Political science


  Aims to know the activities within the state
• Polis


  • City state in Ancient Greece
  • Greece played a significant role in the development of political thought, philosophy, and democracy