VALED MT

• Family


  The basic social institution and the primary group in any society
• Family


  A subsystem with interacting personalities, supported by set of norms, attitudes and values drawn mostly from the large society
• Classification of family according to organization and membership


  • Nuclear family
  • Extended family
• Nuclear family


  • Composed of father, mother, and children in the union recognized by the society
• Types of nuclear family


  • Family of orientation
  • Family of procreation
• Family of orientation


  • Into which one is born, reared and socialized
• Family of procreation


  • Established by the person by marriage
• Extended family


  • Two or more nuclear families related to each other economically and socially
• Types of extended family


  • Conjugal family
  • Consanguineal family
• Conjugal family


  • Considers spouse and children as prime importance
• Consanguineal family


  • Considers nucleus of blood relatives as more important than spouse
• Classification of family according to place of residence


  • Patrilocal family
  • Matrilocal family
  • Bilocal family
  • Neolocal family
  • Avunlocal family
• Patrilocal family


  • Newlywed couple live with/near the residence of the GROOM
• Matrilocal family


  • Newlywed couple live with/near the residence of the BRIDE
• Bilocal family


  • Newlywed has the freedom to select where to reside (near the groom/bride's family)
• Neolocal family


  • Permits newlywed couple to reside INDEPENDENTLY of their parents
• Avunlocal family


  • Newlywed couple reside with/near the MATERNAL UNCLE of the GROOM
• Classification of family according to descent


  • Patrilineal descent
  • Matrilineal descent
  • Bilateral descent
• Patrilineal descent


  • Affiliates a person with group of kinsmen to him through his FATHER
• Matrilineal descent


  • Affiliates a person with a group of kinsmen related to him through his MOTHER
• Bilateral descent


  • Affiliates a person with a group of kinsmen related to him through both his MOTHER and FATHER
• Classification of family according to authority


  • Patriarcal family
  • Matriarcal family
  • Equilatarian family
  • Matricentric family
• Patriarcal family


  • Authority is vested in the oldest member (MALE)
• Matriarcal family


  • Authority is vested in the MOTHER or the MOTHER'S KIN
• Equilatarian family


  • HUSBAND and WIFE exercise a more and less and equal amount of authority
• Matricentric family


  • Absence of father (i.e. Working Abroad) gives MOTHER a dominant position in the family. However, FATHER shares with mother in terms of decision-making
• Classification of family according to marriage


  • Monogamy
  • Polygamy
• Monogamy


  • Permits man to have ONLY ONE SPOUSE at a time
• Types of polygamy


  • Polygyny
  • Polyandry
• Polygyny


  • Marriage of ONE MAN to TWO or MORE WOMEN at a time
• Polyandry


  • Marriage of ONE WOMAN to TWO or MORE MEN at the same time
• Functions of family


  • Unit of production
  • Biological maintenance
  • Socializes the members
  • Provides status to the members
  • Important mechanism for social control
  • Primary school for lessons in life
• Family development tasks


  • Physical maintenance
  • Allocation of resources
  • Division of labor
  • Socializing the family members
  • Reproduction, recruitment, and release of family members
  • Maintenance of order
  • Placement of members in the larger society
  • Maintenance of motivation or morale
• The Philippines emerged in the 1890s after 3 centuries of Spanish colonization
• Liberation from the last colonizers, the Japanese, only occurred in 1946
• Colonial mentality remains
• An individual's race, ethnicity and physical characteristics are not the only factors that makes a person's national identity
• Our values and traits are also important indicators that set us apart from others
• Recognized forms of Filipino citizenship


  • Filipino by birth
  • Filipino by naturalization
• Filipino by birth


  • Jus soli (right of soil) and jus sanguinis (right of blood)