KINSHIP, MARRIAGE AND

THE HOUSEHOLD
DANILO F. MARIBAO
PALIPARAN III SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
DASMARINAS CITY, CAVITE
ACCOMPLISH
On a short bond paper, illustrate your ideal
family through a drawing or a sketch. Below it,
write a brief explanation.
KINSHIP – refers to human relationship, that is,
A person’s relationship by blood or marriage to
another person or others.
It creates a network of social relationship that
are basic and essential in the lives of most
humans in most societies.
a. KINSHIP BY BLOOD - Kinship patterns basically
include people related either by descent or by
marriage.
Kinship by blood - refers to relationship by
descent, that is, the relationship that arises in
one’s group of origin (descent group) or that
which refers to genetic relatedness.
Kinds of Kinship by Blood:
CONSANGUINITY – relationship by blood or by
descent of the same ancestor, and is related to
genealogy – a line of descent directly traceable
from an ancestor.
PATRILINEAL – kinships is reckoned through his
or her father’s line of descent.
MATRILINEAL – kinship is seen through his or
her mother’s line of descent.
Bilateral – most common form of descent
pattern that traces kinship both from the
mother’s and the father’s line of descent.
b. KINSHIP BY MARRIAGE
Marriage – a socially or ritually recognized union
or legal contract between spouses that
establishes rights and obligations between
them.
Affinity – the kinship by marriage or the human
relation through marriage.
Endogamy – the social rule which states the a
partner must be selected from a person’s own
social group.
Exogamy – the rule which proclaims that a
partner must be chosen from a group different
from one’s own.
MONOGAMY AND POLYGAMY
Monogamy – refers to the marriage of one
woman to one man at a time.
Serial monogamy – if remarriage is allowed
following divorce or death of a partner.

Polygamy – is the custom of having more than

one legal spouse at the same time.
Types of POLYGAMY
POLYGYNY – if a man is married to ore than one
wife at a time.
POLYANDRY – when it is woman who is married
to more than one spouse (husband) at a time.
POST-MARITAL RESIDENCY RULES
Refer to the conventional rules or patterns of
behavior concerning the place a married couple
live after marriage.
Type of post-marital residency
1. Patrilocal – the married couple’s normal
residence is with or near the husband’s
patrilineal kinsmen.
2. Matrilocal – the married couple’s normal
residence is with or near the wife’s patrilineal
kinsmen.
3. Avunculocal – the married couple’s normal
residence is with or near the maternal uncle
(mother’s brother) or the husband’s other male
matrilineal kinsmen.
4. Bilocal – the couple establishes its residence
optionally with or near the parents of either
spouse.
5. Ambilocal – the married couple shifts
periodically from residence with husband’s
groups to residence with wife’s group.
6. Neolocal – the couple’s normal residence is
apart from the relatives of both spouses.
7. Duolocal – the couple has no common
household as the husband and the wife remain
in their respective natal groups.
8. Matri-Patrilocal – the newlyweds initially live
with the wife’s group for a short period of time,
usually for one year or until the birth of the first
child. Afterward, the couple’s residence is
shifted permanently to the husband’s group.
c. KINSHIP BY RITUAL
In some societies, kinship relationships extend
to people an individual has religious, economic,
or political relationship with or other kinds of
social ties such as friendship.
COMPADRAZGO – Godparenthood
d. FAMILY AND HOUSEHOLD
Family refers to a group of people living
together and functioning as a single household,
usually consisting of parents and their children.
NUCLEAR FAMILY- or Elementary Family it is a
family group consisting of a pair of adults, and
their offspring, regardless of the number, as
nuclear family may have any number of
children. Also called as conjugal family.
EXTENDED FAMILY- Is that which extends
beyond the immediate family, the basic example
of which is a married couple and his children
that live with either the husband or the wife’s
parents.
RECONSTITUTED FAMILY-Is that which is formed
by the joining of two adults through marriage,
cohabitation, or civil partnership, in which
either one or both of the adults have a child or
children from a previous relationship kiving in
their home.
TRANSNATIONAL FAMILY- are those which
“adopt separate living arrangement in two or
more countries but retain close links with their
homeland” and also called separated families.
e. POLITICSAL KINSHIP – kinship relations may
extend to people an individual or a family has
political affiliation with.
POLITICAL DYNASTY – may refer to the system of
succession of political leaders from the same
family or clan that maintains power for may
generations.
POLITICAL ALLIANCE – as political parties may
be formed by the joining of forces of political
families, political alliances may be created by
the collaboration among some political parties.
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