This document provides an overview of kinship, marriage, and household structures across cultures. It defines key concepts such as descent, types of kinship, marriage arrangements, post-marital residency rules, and family types. Specific topics covered include unilineal vs. bilateral descent, consanguineal vs. affinal kinship, exogamy vs. endogamy, monogamy vs. polygamy, arranged vs. referred marriage, and nuclear vs. extended vs. blended family models. The document aims to introduce students to the social institutions of kinship, marriage, and family from a comparative cultural perspective.

1. WELCOME
to our
UCSP CLASS

2. KINSHIP, MARRIAGE, and
the HOUSEHOLD
2nd Quarter, Module 1

3. KINSHIP
-a social institution that
refers to relations
formed between
members of society.
DESCENT
refers to the origin or background of a
person in terms of family or nationality. It
is a biological relationship.

4. PRINCIPLES OF DESCENT
 Unilineal Descent – traced through single line of ancestors,
either from father or mother descent but not both.
Patrilineal Descent: affiliates a person with a group of
relatives through his or her father.
Matrilineal Descent: affiliates a person with a group of
relatives through his or her mother.
 Bilateral Descent – traced through both ancestral lines of the
mother and the father.

5. TYPES OF KINSHIP
CONSANGUINEAL KINSHIP AFFINAL KINSHIP
are relatives related
"by blood“ meaning
those people with
whom you share
known common
ancestors, however
distant.
affinal kin, or affines,
are relatives by
marriage or your in-
laws; if the marriage
ends, they are no
longer affines.

6. Other type of kinship
Kinship by Ritual
 Compadrazgo – literally translated as
“godparent”.
Kinship of Politics
 Political Dynasties – refer to family
members who are involved in politics for
several generations.
 Political Alliances – parties who agree to
cooperate for a common goal

7. WHAT IS
MARRIAGE?

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9. MARRIAGE ACROSS
CULTURES
ENDOGAMY – marriage within their
own clan or ethnic group.
EXOGAMY – marriage outside their
own clan or ethnic group

10. MARRIAGE ACROSS
CULTURES
MONOGAMY – marriage where on
individual has only one spouse at a
time
POLYGAMY – marriage having more
than one spouse
(1) Polygyny: marriage of one
man having multiple female
partners
(2) Polyandry: marriage of one
woman having multiple male
partners

11. TYPES OF MARRIAGE
REFERRED MARRIAGE ARRANGED MARRIAGE
Happens when
someone finds his/her
partner through
friends or relatives
who act as
matchmakers.
Marriage is arranged
by parents of the
groom and bride.

12. TYPES OF ARRANGED
MARRIAGE
 CHILD MARRIAGE – parents of small child arrange a future
marriage with another child’s parents.
 EXCHANGE MARRIAGE – reciprocal exchange of spouses
between two nations, groups, or tribes.
 DIPLOMATIC MARRIAGE – marriages are arranged for
political reasons.
 MODERN ARRANGED MARRIAGE – The parents choose
several possible mates for the child, sometimes with the
help of the child. Parents may exert varying degrees of
pressure on the child to make a certain choice.

13. POST MARITAL
RESIDENCY RULES
 Patrilocal Residence – married couple stays with or
near the husband’s kin or relatives.
 Matrilocal Residence – married couple stays with or
near the wife’s kin or relatives.
 Biolocal Residence – married couple stays with the
husband’s kin or wife’s kin alternately.
 Neolocal Residence – married couple stays or build a
home independently from husband or wife’s kin.
 Avunculocal Residence – married couple resides with
or near the maternal uncle of the groom.

14. FAMILY and the
HOUSEHOLD
 Nuclear family – a family made up of a married couple, and the
biological or adopted children.
 Extended family – composed of two or more nuclear family in a
household.
 Blended family – type of family where both parents have
children from previous marital relationships.
 Conditionally separated family – type of family where a member
is separated from the rest of the family due to employment,
sickness, etc.
 Transnational family – type of family who lives in more than one
country.

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