FAMILY, KINSHIP, AND MARRIAGE | SOCIAL INSTITUTION Flashcards
Is considered as vital social institution
Family
A group of people who are related by birth, marriage, adoption, and shared residence.
Family
family that one is born into and grows up with, usually as a child of two parents.
Family Orientation
creates through marriage, adoption, and other legal processes.
Family of Procreation
Composed of parents and children
Nuclear Family
A Mother and Her Children
Matrifocal
A father and His Children
Patrifocal
A single-parent Family is composed of a mother and her Children.
Conjugal
Parents and children co-reside with the other members of one parent’s family
Extended Family
Composed of the spouses and their children from a previous marriage.
Reconstituted Or Blended Family
Is a type of a family where a member is separated from the rest of the family due to employment, military service, sickness, etc.
Conditionally Separated Family
Is a type of family where one or more of its members live in different nations. This social phenomenon is prevalent in Philippine society due to overseas employment.
Transnational Family
Living together with children without marriage.
Cohabitation Family
Refers to human relations based on biological descent, marriage, and adoption.
Kinship
What are Two Types of Kinship?
-Consanguineous Kinship
-Affinal Kinship
Actual Blood Relationship
Consanguineous Kinship
Bond of marriage, refers to the type of relations develops when marriage occurs.
Affinal Kinship
Includes husband, wife, parents, and children.
Primary Kinship
Includes those kin that are related to primary kin of an individual.
Secondary Kinship
Refers to the origin or background of a person in terms of family or nationality. It is a biological relationship.
Descent
lineage which is traced through males.
Patrilineal Descent
lineage which is traced through females.
Matrilineal Descent
method of tracing the lineage of children equally through ancestors of both mother and father.
Bilineal Descent
one in which the authority is vested in the mother.
Matriarchal
equal sharing of practical responsibilities and decision-making by men and women.
Equalitarian
one in which the authority is vested in the oldest male in the family
Patriarchal
One in which the authority is vested in the mother due to the prolonged absence of the father.
Matricentric
married couple required to line with the female or near the residence of the parents of the groom.
Patrifocal
married couple live with the family or near the residence of the parents of the bride.
Matrifocal
newlyweds have the freedom to select where to live (either with or near the parents of the groom and bride.)
Bilocal
newlyweds can decide independently where to live.
Neolocal
A special contract of permanent union between man and a woman entered into in accordance with the law for the establishment of conjugal and family life.
Marriage
types of Marriage
-Monogamy
-Polygamy
-Adoptive Marriage
-Sororate Marriage
-Levirate Marriage
-Ghost Marriage
refers to the marriage of a man of a woman.
Monogamy
refers to the marriage of one person of one sex to a minimum of two persons of another sex.
Polygamy
if the family does not have a son to preserve their surname, the prospective son-in-law adopts the family’s name of the bride’s parents before marriage; in doing so, the bride’s family name is not changed.
Adoptive Marriage
a man marries his deceased wife’s sister; sometimes called a sister-in-law marriage.
Sororate Marriage
a woman marries her deceased husband’s brother.
Levirate Marriage
In China, it is called MINGHUN, where a man is married to a deceased female. It happens more likely due to the growing shortage of females and that he maintains his status in society.
Ghost Marriage
