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    • Types of Kinship
      • Kinship by Blood
      • Kinship by Marriage
      • Kinship by Rituals
    • Kinship
      A social institution that refers to relations formed between members of society. It explains the nature and reason for the formation of the different types of bonds that exist within society.
    • Kinship by Blood
      Consanguineal kinship or kinship based on blood is considered the most basic and general form of relations. The relationship is achieved by birth or blood affinity.
    • Descent
      A biological relationship. Societies recognize that children descend from parents and that there exists a biological relationship between parents and their offspring.
    • Lineage
      The line where one's descent is traced. An individual's descent can be traced by studying either the person's paternal or maternal line.
    • Forms of Descent
      • Patrilineal
      • Matrilineal
      • Bilateral
    • Kinship by Marriage
      Affinal kinship or kinship based on marriage refers to the type of relations developed when a marriage occurs. When a marriage takes place, new forms of social relations are developed.
    • Types of Kinship by Marriage
      • Endogamy
      • Exogamy
      • Monogamy
      • Polygamy
      • Polygyny
      • Polyandry
      • Patrilocal
      • Matrilocal
      • Biolocal
      • Arranged marriage
      • Referred marriage
    • Endogamy
      Compulsory marriage; this form of marriage is practiced by a number of ethnic groups, religious groups, and the aristocratic classes.
    • Exogamy
      Out-marriage; refers to a marriage custom where an individual is required by society's norms and rules to marry outside of their own group, community, or social classes.
    • Monogamy
      Marriage or sexual partnering custom or practice where an individual has only one male or female or mate
    • Polygamy
      The practice of having more than one partner or sexual mate
    • Polygyny
      A man has multiple female partners or mates
    • Polyandry
      A woman has multiple male partners or mates
    • Post-Marital Residence Rules
      • Neolocal Residence
      • Patrilocal Residence
      • Matrilocal Residence
      • Matrifocal Residence
      • Avunculocal Residence
      • Ambilocal Residence
      • Natalocal Residence
    • Neolocal Residence
      Each spouse leaves his/her family of origin and jointly forms a new household, which develops as nuclear family. This is the basic pattern in modern industrial societies.
    • Patrilocal Residence
      Upon marriage, a man remains in his father's household while his wife leaves her family to move in with him. As children are born, they are added to the paternal unit.
    • Matrilocal Residence
      Upon marriage, a woman remains in her mother's household while her husband leaves his family to move in with her. As children are born, they are added to the maternal unit.
    • Matrifocal Residence
      Consists of a woman and her children, and sometimes her daughter's children, without coresident husbands or other adult men. This pattern is not usually an expression of a rule or cultural preference, but results from economic conditions in which a man is unable to support a family.
    • Avunculocal Residence
      More complicated than the other rules, since two (2) residences changes are involved. Household formation begins with a virilocal rule, placing a married woman in her husband's household, where their children are raised. Upon reaching maturity, the men must relocate to their mother's brother's household, the actual avunculocal move.
    • Natalocal Residence
      Each partner remains with their own families of residence after marriage. If children remain in their mother's household, the result will be the formation of domestic matrilineages to which all male and female residents belong.
    • Types of Referred and Arranged Marriages
      • Referred Marriages
      • Fixed or Arranged Marriages
      • Child Marriage
      • Exchange Marriage
      • Diplomatic Marriage
      • Modern Arranged Marriage
    • Referred Marriages
      Matchmakers help their single friends or relatives to find their possible husband or wife by referring them to another man or woman who is also interested in finding a life partner.
    • Fixed or Arranged Marriages
      In some societies, marriage partner are not referred but they are arranged by the parents of the groom and bride.
    • Child Marriage
      Parents arrange for the marriage of their child long before the marriage takes place. The marriage will be consummated in the future.
    • Exchange Marriage
      There is a reciprocal exchange of spouses between two countries, tribes, or groups.
    • Diplomatic Marriage
      An arranged marriage has been established between two royal or political families in order to forge political or diplomatic alliances.
    • Kinship by Rituals
      Compadrazgo, literally translated as 'godparenthood', is a ritualized form of forging co-parenthood or family. Through the compadrazgo set-up, a relationship between the child's biological parents, their children, and persons close to the parents but not related by blood become a family.
    • Compadre/Kumpare
      Male godparent
    • Kumare
      Female godparent
    • Inaanak
      Godson / goddaughter
    • Types of Family
      • Nuclear Family
      • Extended Family
      • Blended Family
    • Nuclear Family
      A type of family that is made up of a group of people who are united by social ties. It is usually made up of two adults and their socially recognized children.
    • Extended Family

      A type of family whose members go beyond the nuclear family made up of parents and their offspring.
    • Blended Family

      A type of family where parents have a child or children from previous marital relationships but all the members stay and congregate to form a new family unit. It is sometimes called step family, reconstituted family, or a complex family.
    • Types of Household
      • Nuclear Household
      • Extended Household
    • Nuclear Household
      A household consisting entirely of a single family nucleus. It may be one (1) of the following types: a married couple without children; a married couple with one (1) or more unmarried children; a father with one (1) or more unmarried children; or a mother with one (1) or more unmarried children.
    • Extended Household
      A household consisting of any one of the following: A single family nucleus and other persons related to the nucleus; Two (2) or more family nuclei related to each other without any other persons; Two (2) or more family nuclei related to each other plus other persons related to at least one (1) of the nuclei; Two (2) or more persons related to each other, none of whom constitute a family nucleus.
    • Reconstituted Families
      Also known as a blended family. It is the sociological term for the joining of two (2) adults via marriage, cohabitation or civil partnership, who have had previous relationships and children from them.
    • Transnational Families
      A new family model, which can be characterized by the geographical dispersion of a family because of the migration of one (1) or more of its members who, nevertheless continue to keep tight relationships across borders.