UCSP - KINSHIP (REVIEWER)

Human Society
- group of people who share a common lifestyle or organization.
- A group of people involved in persistent human interaction or a large social grouping
having the same geographical or social territory, typically subjected to the same political
authority and dominant cultural expectations.
- Composed of a large number of people who form a relatively organized self-sufficient,
enduring body.
Kinship
- Refers to a person’s relationship by blood or marriage to another person or others.

3 TYPES OF KINSHIP

A. Consanguineous Kinship
i. AKA Primary Kinship
ii. Kinship based on blood
iii. Ex. Parents & Children, Siblings, cousins, aunts, uncles, grandparents,
and grandchildren.
B. Affinal Kinship
i. Kinship based on marriage.
ii. Includes any individual that has been connected to you through marriage.
iii. Ex. Husband, wife, mother/father-in-law, sister/brother-in-law.
C. Fictive Kinship
i. Patterned on kin-like relations but not actually based upon blood or
marriage.
ii. Ex. Godparents (ninong & ninang), adoption, foster parents

DEGREE OF KINSHIP

1. Primary (Direct Relations)

a. Primary Consanguineous
b. Primary Affinal
2. Secondary (Primary kin of primary kin)
a. Secondary Consanguineous
b. Secondary Affinal
3. Tertiary
a. Tertiary Consanguineous
b. Tertiary Affinal
CONSANGUINEOUS KINSHIP

● Unileniality - A system of determining descent groups in which one belongs to one’s

father’s or mother’s line.
○ Patrilineal
■ AKA male line or agnatic kinship.
■ One’s descent is traced exclusively through male ancestors/father’s line.
○ Matrilineal
■ One’s descent is traced exclusively through female ancestors/mother’s
line.
● Bileneal or Bilateral - One’s descent is traced on both the mother’s and father’s side.

AFFINAL KINSHIP

● Monogamy - A form of relationship in which an individual has only one partner during
his/her lifetime or at any one time (serial monogamy)
○ Marital - Marriage of only two people.
○ Social - refers to two partners living together, having sex with one another and
cooperating in acquiring basic resources.
○ Sexual - refers to two partners remaining sexually exclusive with each other and
having no outside sex.
○ Genetic - refers to socially monogamous relationships with evidence of paternity
● Polygamy - having more than 1 marriage partner at a time.
○ Polygyny - marriage between a man and multiple woman.
○ Polyandry - marriage between a woman and multiple men.
○ Group Marriage - A rare form of marriage where several males are married
simultaneously to several females.

IMPORTANCE OF KINSHIP

● Relation to family Property or land

○ Assigns guidelines for interaction between persons.
○ Determines family life.
○ Influences ownership of land and wealth.
● Marriage
○ Decides who can marry with whom.
○ Where marital relationships are taboo.
● Rituals
○ Determines the rights and obligations of the members in all religious sacraments
and religious practices from birth to death.
○ In rural and tribal societies, determines the rights and obligations of family,
marriage, system of production, and political power.