ucsp L6

• Kinship - refers to the relationships between individuals who are related by blood, marriage, or adoption.

  refers to the web of social relationships that form an essential part of the lives of most societies.
• Descent - refers to the origin or background of a person in terms of family or nationality.
• Marriage - the legally or formally recognized union of two people as partners in a personal relationship

  an institution consisting of a cluster of mores and folkways, attitudes, ideas, and ideals of social definitions and legal restrictions
• Family is the basic social institution and the primary group in society. characterized by common residence, economic cooperation and reproduction.
• Family a group of persons united by ties of marriage, blood or adoption, constituting a single household, interacting and communicating with each other in their respective social roles of husband and wife, mother and father, son and daughter, brother and sister and creating and maintaining a common culture.
• Nuclear Family smallest unit responsible for the preservation of the value system of the society.
• Nuclear Family - Family of orientation is the family into which one is born and where one is reared or socialized. Consists of a father, mother, brothers and sisters.
• Extended Family - composed of two or more nuclear families, economically and socially related to each other.
• Patrilineal Descent - the child finds it necessary to ask for support from his father’s kin.
• Matrilineal Descent - the child finds it necessary to ask support from his mother's kin
• Bilateral Descent - the child asks support either from the father or mother’s kin.
• Patrilocal Residence - newly married couple live with or near the domicile of the parents of the bridegroom.
• Matrilocal Residence - newly married couple live with or near the domicile of the parents of the bride.
• Bilocal Residence - newly married couple live either with or near either of the parents of the bridegroom or of the bride.
• Neolocal Residence - newly married couple live independently of the parents of either groom or bride.
• Avuncolocal Residence - newly married couple reside with or near the maternal uncle of the groom.
• Patriarchal family - authority is vested in the eldest male in the family, often the father.
• Matriarchal Family - authority is vested in the mother or mother’s kin.
• Egalitarian Family - both the husband and the wife exercise a more or less equal amount or degree of authority.
• Matricentric Family - the father’s prolonged absence gives the mother a prevailing position in the family. For example, in the Filipino family if the father works abroad.
• Monogamy - Allows or permits a man to take only one spouse at a time.
• Poligany - Plural marriage.
• Polygyny is the marriage of one man to two or more women at the same time.
• Polyandry is the marriage of one woman to two or more men at the same time
• Endogamy - refers to the norm which dictates that one should marry within one’s clan or ethnic group.
• Exogamy - anyone can marry outside one’s clan or ethnic group.
• Levirate norms - a widow marries the brother or nearest kin of the deceased husband.
• Surrogate norms - men should marry the sister or nearest kin of the deceased wife.
• Family of procreation - is the family established through marriage and consists of a husband, a wife, sons and daughters.