Kinship Understanding Culture, Society and Politics .pptx

Understanding Culture, Society and Politics

1. KINSHIP

2. OBJECTIVES Trace kinship ties and social networks; Compare different types of kinship based on lineage; Discuss the functions of family and marriage; and Identify the different types of families based on the number of spouses and residential patterns.

3. Kinship refers to the “web of social relationships” that humans form as part of a family, which is the smallest unit of society. Ferraro and Andreatta (2010) defined family as “a social and economic unit that consists of one or more parents and their children.”

4. CHARACTERISTICS OF FAMILY

5. A family should have at least one child. – one of the most crucial elements of a family is the existence of children. A family can have one or more parents. – in the society that you grow up in, a family usually consists of two parents ―a father and a mother.

6. A family can have parents who are not married. – although the marriage of parents is important in religious countries such as the Philippines, it is not a prerequisite in other societies. A family can have parents with same sex. – although same sex marriage is illegal in most countries including the Philippines, some societies allow for the marriage of individuals with the same sex.

7. A family is a socioeconomic unit. – what makes a group of individuals a family is their dependency on one another with regard to their social and economic activities.

8. CLASSIFICATION OF FAMILY

9. ACCORDING TO ORGANIZATION, STRUCTURE, AND MEMBERSHIP Nuclear family – it is composed of a husband/father, and his wife/mother, and their child/children in the union recognized by the society. Any individual belongs to two kinds of families: (1) family of orientation, and (2) family of procreation. Extended family – this is composed of two or more nuclear families related to each other economically and socially.

10. ACCORDING TO ORGANIZATION, STRUCTURE, AND MEMBERSHIP Reconstituted family – the current spouses were previously married and had children, and upon the dissolution of their previous marriages, these individuals remarried and created a new family by bringing in their children from their past marriages and often birthing their own.

11. ACCORDING TO PLACE OF RESIDENCE Patrilocal residence – requires that newly married couple live with the family of the husband or near the residence of the parents of the husband. Matrilocal residence – requires that newlywed couple live with or near the residence of the wife’s parents.

12. ACCORDING TO PLACE OF RESIDENCE Bilocal / Ambilocal residence – provides the newlywed couple the freedom to select where to reside, i.e., near the husband’s or wife’s area. Neolocal residence – permits the newlywed couple to reside independently of their parents.

13. ACCORDING TO PLACE OF RESIDENCE Avunculocal residence – prescribes that the newlywed couple reside with or near the maternal uncle of the husband. Natalocal residence – this arrangement allows both spouses to remain with their own households after marriage.

14. ACCORDING TO DESCENT Patrilineal descent – affiliates a person with a group of relatives related to him/her through his/her father. Matrilineal descent – affiliates a person with a group of kinsmen related to him/her through the mother.

15. ACCORDING TO DESCENT Bilateral descent – affiliates a person with a group of kinsmen related to him/her through both his/her father and mother.

16. ACCORDING TO AUTHORITY Patriarchal family – is one in which authority is vested in the oldest male member, often the father, or grandfather, or in the absence of parents, on the oldest male member. Matriarchal family – is one in which authority is vested in the mother or the mother’s kin.

17. ACCORDING TO AUTHORITY Equalitarian – is one where the husband and wife exercise a more or less equal amount of authority.

18. ACCORDING TO TERMS OF MARRIAGE Monogamy – permits the man to have only one spouse at any time. Polygamy – is plural marriage. It assumes any of the following forms: (1) polyandry, and (2) polygyny.

19. POLITICS OF KINSHIP

20. A political dynasty refers to the continuous political rule of one family. Due to the compadrazgo system, political alliances are also created, which is based not on agreed political ideologies or platforms but more on a pseudokinship basis.

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