Kinship

By Ramil/Inna
What is kinship?
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.
 KINSHIP BY
BLOOD
-Kinship patterns basically include people related
either by descent or by marriage.
- 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.
 KIND OF KINDSHIP 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.

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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.
 KINDSHIP BY MARRIAGE

A socially or ritually recognized union or

legal contract between spouses that
establishes rights and obligations between
them.
AFFINITY – Human relation through
marriage
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– T h e s o c i a l rule
ENDOGAMY be se l e c te d fr o ma
a rtne r m u st
the a p g ro u p.
n s o ci a l
person's ow le w h ich p ro c la im s t ha t
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EXOGAMY – h o s e n fr om a g ro u p
u st b e c
a partner m o w n .
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different fro
MONOGAMY AND POLYGAMY
TYPES OF POLYGAMY

POLYGYNY – If a man is married to more 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.
 FAMILY AND Types of family:
HOUSEHOLD
1.Nuclear family
-Family refers to a group of people 2.Extended family
3.Reconstituted family
living together and functioning as 4.Transnational family
a single household, usually
consisting of parents and their
children.
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 joining of forces of
political families, political
alliances may be created by the
collaboration among some
political parties.