This document defines and describes different types of kinship, marriage, and family structures. It discusses kinship by blood including consanguinity, patrilineal, and matrilineal descent. It also covers kinship by marriage including affinity, endogamy, exogamy, monogamy, polygamy, and post-marital residency rules. The document defines nuclear, extended, reconstituted, and transnational families. It concludes with a brief discussion of political kinship including political dynasties and alliances.

1. KINSHIP, MARRIAGE AND
THE HOUSEHOLD

2. 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.

3. A. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. B. KINSHIP BY MARRIAGE
MARRIAGE – A socially or ritually recognized
union or legal contract between spouses that
establishes rights and obligations between
them.
AFFINITY – Human relation through marriage

7. 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.

8. 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 – The custom of having more
than one legal spouse at the same time.

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. 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.

14. 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.

15. 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.

16. 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.

17. NUCLEAR FAMILY
- Consisting of a pair of adults, and their
offspring, regardless of thenumber, as nuclear
family may have any number of children. Also
called as conjugal family.

18. EXTENDED FAMILY
- 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.

19. RECONSTITUTED FAMILY
- 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
living in their home.

20. 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.

21. E. POLITICSAL KINSHIP
– Kinship relations may extend to people
an individual or a family has political
affiliation with.

22. POLITICAL DYNASTY
– May refer to the system of succession of
political leaders from the same family or
clan that maintains power for may
generations.

23. 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.

24. TASK:
On a short bond paper, illustrate your ideal
family through a drawing or a sketch. Below
it, write a brief explanation.