Jack

Family is consideres the basic unit of social organization. It is made up of a group of individuals who are
linked together by marriage, blood relations, or adoption. It constitutes a single household that
interrelates with each other and performs the social roles of a husband, wife, mother, father, brother
and sister. That has a different categories, classification and ideas based on the family and the
household.

Based on the information that was gathered by the researchers, there are different definitions of family
according to sociologist and anthropologists, George Murdock, Talcott Parson, Kingsley Davis and
Bronslaw Malinowski they defined and characterize a family differently. And the family are also
interpreted differently by structural functionalists, conflicts theorists and symbolic interactionist theory.
And there are two concepts for the household the one person household that makes provision for his or
her essentials and the multi person household is a group of two or more person who are common
provision for their essentials. Also there are types of family and households, the nuclear family and
extended family wich the two is considered a group of individuals who are commonly being together in
a one house, but the extended family is a extension of family that the other relatives joined the party.
The blended family is the family wich has a step sister or a step brother that came from the previous
martial relationships that often called, step family. And the Kinship of Politics, I don't know what's the
connect to the family, but based on my theory and the study that conducted, this kinship politics is
considered as a part of family and household because there is a family that has dynasty in the field of
Politics to straighten their alliances of the ruling party.

The family and household was categorized, interpreted, and defined by the sociologist, anthropologists
and the researchers. And learned that their definitions are based on their theory, and experience. But
they haved a wrong in their theory, they don't tell about love. Love is the only ingredient to make a
family strong. So for me family is a group of people who lives in a life that Love's each other. And lived in
a place called home not house.

Adrian Madrona

12 BGN

A family is a group of people who are related to each other. It is considered the basic unit of social
organization. It is made of people who are related by marriage, blood and adoption each performing the
roles of father, mother, brother and sister. As time goes by, a family became a word with different
meanings.

I learned that there are different definitions of family. From sociologists and anthropologist, from
structural functionalist, conflict and symbol interactionist, all of them defines family differently. After
studying about family, it came to me that families and household are two related concepts and
according to United Nation, a family whose members of the household are related through blood,
marriage and adoption while household can be a one person household where one person can provide
for his own or multi person household where two or more persons can provide while living together. I
also noticed that there are types of family and it is nuclear family, extended family and blended family.
Nuclear family are group of people united by social ties like married couple having biological or adopted
child. Extended family are made of parents and their offspring like a married couple living with relatives.
And the blended family or sometimes called stepfamily where the parents have a child from the
previous marital relationship. It often where divorced parents remarry while some do not but still lives in
one house. Politics have also influenced families in the Philippines. There is political dynasty where
elected politicians are relatives. There is also political alliances where political parties cooperate with
another political party to guarantee victory in the election.

I realized that there are types of family having different situations. Also different people can give
different meaning or interpretation to the word family, it might be based from their experience or from
what they observed and learned. Some might even consider a person a family even if they dont have
relationship through blood, marriage and adoption. Just having a strong bond with that person is
enough to make someone a part of a family. Having a family is the best thing we can have so we must
cherish our family for not everyone have one.