USCP

• 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.
• Types of Kinship


  • Kinship by Blood
  • Kinship by Marriage
  • Kinship by Rituals
• Kinship by Blood (Consanguineal kinship)


  Kinship based on blood, considered the most basic and general form of relations. The relationship is achieved by birth or blood affinity.
• Kinship by Blood


  • Descent - Biological relationship, where societies recognize that children descend from parents
  • Lineage - The line where one's descent is traced, can be paternal, maternal or bilateral
• Forms of Kinship by Blood

  • Patrilineal
  • Matrilineal
  • Bilateral
• Kinship by Marriage (Affinal kinship)


  Kinship based on marriage, refers to the type of relations developed when a marriage occurs.
• Types of Kinship by Marriage

  • Endogamy
  • Exogamy
  • Monogamy
  • Polygamy
  • Polygyny
  • Polyandry
  • Patrilocal
  • Matrilocal
  • Biolocal
  • Arranged marriage
  • Referred marriage
  • Marriage Across Culture
• Endogamy


  Compulsory marriage within one's own group, community, or social class
• Exogamy


  Out-marriage, marriage custom where an individual is required to marry outside their own group, community, or social class
• Monogamy


  Marriage or sexual partnering custom where an individual has only one male or female mate
• Polygamy


  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
• Patrilocal


  Married couples stay in the house of the husband's relatives or near the husband's kin
• Matrilocal


  Married couples live with the wife's relatives or near the wife's kin
• Biolocal


  Newlywed couple stay with the husband's relatives and the wife's kin alternately
• Arranged marriage


  Marriage partners are arranged by the parents of the groom and bride
• Referred marriage


  Matchmakers help single friends or relatives find a possible husband or wife
• Neolocal Residence


  Each spouse leaves their family of origin and jointly forms a new household, 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
• Matrilocal Residence


  Upon marriage, a woman remains in her mother's household while her husband leaves his family to move in with her
• Matrifocal Residence


  Household consists of a woman and her children, sometimes her daughter's children, without coresident husbands or other adult men
• Avunculocal Residence


  Household formation begins with a virilocal rule, then upon reaching maturity the men must relocate to their mother's brother's household
• Ambilocal Residence


  Married couple decides whether to join either the husband's or the wife's household of origin
• Natalocal Residence


  Each partner remains with their own families of residence after marriage, resulting in domestic matrilineages
• Referred Marriages


  Matchmakers help single friends or relatives find a possible husband or wife
• Types of Arranged Marriages

  • Child Marriage
  • Exchange Marriage
  • Diplomatic Marriage
  • Modern Arranged Marriage
• Child Marriage


  Parents arrange the marriage of their child long before the marriage takes place, to be consummated in the future
• Exchange Marriage


  Reciprocal exchange of spouses between two countries, tribes, or groups
• Diplomatic Marriage


  Arranged marriage between two royal or political families to forge political or diplomatic alliances
• Modern Arranged Marriage


  Child's parents, with the child's consent, choose from several possible mates
• Kinship by Rituals (Compadrazgo)


  Ritualized form of forging co-parenthood or family, where 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
• Types of Families


  • Nuclear Family
  • Extended Family
  • Blended Family
• Nuclear Family


  Family made up of two adults and their socially recognized children
• Extended Family


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


  Family where parents have a child or children from previous marital relationships, forming a new family unit
• Nuclear Household


  Household consisting entirely of a single family nucleus
• Extended Household


  Household consisting of a single family nucleus and other persons related to the nucleus, or two or more family nuclei related to each other