Family and Kinship Flashcards
Basic unit of Philippine society and is very significant to the Filipino
Family
Refers to the way in which component parts, eg., statuses, roles, values, norms, beliefs and behavior patterns are arranged, interrelated and organized.
Social structure
Define the specific structural arrangements of a given family system
Family composition, the relationship of members, the system of descent, the rules of residence, the patterns of authority and other characteristics
According to Murdock, ____ is a social group characterized by common residence, economic cooperation and production; it includes adults of both sexes, or at least two of whom maintain a socially approved sexual relationship and one or more children, owned or adopted, of the sexually cohabiting adults
Family
Group of persons United by ties of marriage, blood or adoption; constituting a single household; interacting and communicating with each other in their respective social roles of husband and wife, mother and father, son and daughter, brother and sister; and creating and maintaining a common culture (Burgess and Locke)
Family
According to ____ family members need not be bound by marriage or adoption.
Lamanna and Riedmann
Family consists of 2 or more persons who share resources, share responsibility for decisions, share values and goals, and have a commitment to each other overtime
David and Moore
Family is composed of two or more persons related by mutual expectations of emotional and material support, their family like behavior conveying mutual responsibility, intimacy and care on a continuing basis regardless of their living arrangements
Burant cited in Zimmerman
Not necessary in defining family
Common residence
Defined a group of persons living under one roof and sharing the same kitchen and housekeeping arrangements
Household
Consists typically of a married man and woman with their offspring
Nuclear family
Primary unit of all types of families and is considered the basic building block in family structures
Nuclear family
Consists of individual, his parents and all his siblings
Family where the individual was born and reared
Family of orientation
Consists of individual, his spouse and all his children.
Family is that which the individual establishes by his marriage
Family of procreation
Prohibits an individual from marrying a member of his immediate family
Incest taboo
Nuclear families are combined to form a larger groupings
Compound or composite families
Consists of a person and all his or her families of procreation.
Lacks of continuity over generations since the merger lasts only for as long as the polygamous spouse is alive.
Polygamous family
No. of nuclear families are linked together by virtue of the kinship bond between parents and children and/or between siblings
Extended family
Castillo notes that while the concept of extended family may include many other features, the following are the absolute essentials
*Recognition of kin relations beyond that of a husband and wife and unmarried children
*Shared responsibilities
*Maintenance of expressive and emotional relations beyond the nuclear family.
Internal sense of obligation and privilege, respect, affection, or sexual attraction existing in the mind and heart of each spouse
Conjugal bond
Community expects the husband and wife to be loving and faithful to each other and to have a lasting marriage
Social pressure
Husband is usually the main breadwinner while the wife primarily takes care of the domestic needs of the family.
Economic cooperation
Characterized by mutual love, protection and respect
Sibling relations
The most prevalent residential unit in Filipino society
Nuclear family
Classifies the family as residentially nuclear but functionally extended.
Castillo
Household which includes relatives other than husband , wife and unmarried children
Extended family household
Couple are by themselves or where a widower lives alone
Empty nest stage
It is possible that children who leave their parental home earlier rejoin their parents who begin to experience frailty in their 80’s
Cruz, et.al.
Old people living with grandchildren without the middle generation
Skip generation household
Emphasizes the marital bond and capitalized on sexual attraction.
Usually small and consists only of the spouses and their offspring because other relatives are comparatively considered unimportant
Conjugal family
Usually large and extended because of the emphasis on blood ties.
Consanguineal family
Capitalizes on the asexual association formed during childhood and consists of a nucleus of lineal and collateral blood relatives surrounded by a fringe of spouses who is considered comparatively unimportant
Consanguineal family
Characterized as traditionally consanguineal
Filipino family
Note that in rural areas, personal virtues and failings are believed to be biologically inherited
Mendez and Jocano
Three main rules of descent
Patrilineal, Matrilineal and Bilateral
Merely affiliates the individual at birth with a particular group of relatives to whom he is expected to be especially close
Descent
Individual is affiliated at birth with group related to the father.
Patrilineal system
Individual is affiliated at birth with group related to the mother
Matrilineal system
Associates the individual with a group of kinsmen related to him through both his parents
Bilateral or Bilineal descent
Doubling of descent lines each time reckoning goes higher in the next ascending generation
Multilineal descent
A Spanish influence and not indigenous to the Filipino
Patronymic system
Kind of nickname and family name in Paombong, Bulacan
Bansag
Kind of nickname and family name in Tanay, Rizal
Pamagat
Issued in 1849 a decree which contained thousands of Spanish family names from which the Filipinos could choose their own surname
Governor Narciso Claveria