Topic from values education for education students, definition of family, classification of family, according to organization and membership, nuclear family, family of orientation, family of procreation, extended family, conjugal family, consanguineal family, according to place of residence, patrilocal family, matrolocal family, bilocal family, neolocal family, avunlocal family, according to descent, patrilineal descent, matrilineal descent, bilateral descent, according to authority, patriarcal family, matriarcal family, equalitarian family, matricentric family, according to form of marriage, monogamy, polygamy, polygyny, polyandry, group marriage, functions of the family, family development tasks
2. What is the family?
The family is the basic social
institution and the primary group in
any society, which public policy
cherishes and protects.
It may be viewed as a subsystem with
interacting personalities supported
by set of norms, attitudes and values
drawn mostly from the larger society.
3. What is the family?
The family may be viewed as an
agency playing a vital role in the
development of one’s personality
and in the process of values
formation and development.
It is the group that first socializes the
individual and provides for his basic
social needs.
4. “The family is a
social group
characterized by
common
residence,
5. “The family is a group of
persons united by the
ties of marriage, blood
or adoption,
constituting a single
household, interacting
and communicating with
each other in their
6. CLASSIFICATION OF THE FAMILY
1. According to organization and
membership
a. NUCLEAR FAMILY
composed of father, mother, and children in
the union recognized by the society
*2 kinds:
(1) Family of orientation into which one is born,
reared and socialized
(2) Family of procreation established by the
person by marriage
7. CLASSIFICATION OF THE FAMILY
1. According to organization and
membership
b. EXTENDED FAMILY
two or more nuclear families related to
each other economically and socially
*2 kinds:
(1) Conjugal Familyconsiders spouse & children
as prime importance (marriage bond)
(2) Consanguineal Familyconsiders nucleus of
blood relatives as more important than spouse
8. CLASSIFICATION OF THE FAMILY
2. According to place of
residence
a. PATRILOCAL FAMILY
newlywed couple live with/ near the
residence of the parents of the groom
b. MATRILOCAL FAMILY
newlywed couple live with/ near the
residence of the parents of the bride
9. CLASSIFICATION OF THE FAMILY
2. According to place of
residence
c. BILOCAL FAMILY
provides newlywed couple freedom to select where
to reside (near the groom’s/bride’s family?)
d. NEOLOCAL FAMILY
permits newlywed couple to reside independently of
their parents
e. AVUNLOCAL FAMILY
newlywed couple reside with/ near the maternal
10. CLASSIFICATION OF THE FAMILY
3. According to descent
a. PATRILINEAL DESCENT
affiliates a person with a group of kinsmen
related to him through his father
b. MATRILINEAL DESCENT
affiliates a person with a group of kinsmen
related to him through his mother
c. BILATERAL DESCENT
affiliates a person with a group of kinsmen
related to him through his father and mother
11. CLASSIFICATION OF THE FAMILY
4. According to authority
a. PATRIARCAL FAMILY
authority is vested in the oldest
member (male), often the father
b. MATRIARCAL FAMILY
authority is vested in the mother or
the mother’s kin
12. CLASSIFICATION OF THE FAMILY
4. According to authority
c. EQUALITARIAN FAMILY
husband and wife exercise a more or less
equal amount of authority
d. MATRICENTRIC FAMILY
absence of the father (i.e. working abroad)
gives mother a dominant position in the
family however, father shares with
mother in terms of decision-making
13. CLASSIFICATION OF THE FAMILY
5. According to form of
marriage
a. MONOGAMY
permits man to have only one spouse
at a time
b. POLYGAMY
plural marriage; assumes any of the
following: polygyny, polyandry, and
14. CLASSIFICATION OF THE FAMILY
5. According to form of marriage
POLYGYNY
marriage of one man to two or more women at a
time (common household, economic cooperation, and reproduction)
POLYANDRY
marriage of one woman to two or more men at the
same time
GROUP MARRIAGE
marriage or union of several men & several women
at a time
15. FUNCTIONS OF THE FAMILY
1. The family is the unit of reproduction.
2. It performs the function of biological
maintenance.
3. The family socializes the members.
4. It provides status to the members.
5. It serves as an important mechanism for social
control.
6. The family serves as the first and foremost
school where every child learns the major
lessons in life.
7. It performs such other functions to meet the
material and economic, religious and social
16. FAMILY development tasks
1. Physical maintenance
providing shelter, food, clothing, health care, etc.
2. Allocation of resources
meeting family needs and costs, apportioning
material goods, facilities, space, etc.
3. Division of labor
assigning responsibility & managing household
4. Socializing the family members
guiding internalization of increasing maturity
17. FAMILY development tasks
5. Reproduction, recruitment, and release of family members
bearing or adopting children and rearing them for
release at maturity, incorporating new members
by marriage (in-laws, step-parents, guests,
relatives, etc.)
6. Maintenance of order
providing means of communication, establishing
types and intensity of interaction, and patterns
of affection by administering sanctions insuring
conformity to group norms
18. FAMILY development tasks
7. Placement of members in the larger society
fitting into the community, relating to church,
school, organizational life, political and economic
systems
8. Maintenance of motivation and morale
rewarding members for achievements, satisfying
individual needs for acceptance, encouragement
and affection, meeting personal and family crises,
refining a philosophy of life and sense of family
loyalty through rituals and festivities