Kinship

Question 1

What are social aggregates?

Answer 1

People that happen to be together in a particular place, but do not significantly interact or identify with one another

ex. watching cinema, people at a concert

Question 2

What are social categories?

Answer 2

People who share common characteristics but do not necessarily interact or identify with one another

ex. gender, LGBTQIA+

Question 3

What is a social group?

Answer 3

People who regularly interact with one another on the basis of shared expectations concerning behaviour and who share a sense of common identity

ex. family, political parties, class groups

Question 4

What are the types of social groups?

Answer 4

• primary group
• secondary group
• reference group

Question 5

What is a primary group?

Answer 5

First person you interact with, typically small social group whose members share close, personal relationships

ex. families, childhood friends

Question 6

What is a secondary group?

Answer 6

Can be small or large, mostly impersonal and usually short-term

ex. political parties, schoolmates, doctor-patient

Question 7

What if a reference group?

Answer 7

Group we compare ourselves with, “identity association group”

ex. parents, siblings, teachers, peers

Question 8

What is a network?

Answer 8

It is formed by the presence of social linkage invoked and availed by an individual for some personal, economic, religious, or political reasons

Question 9

What is a groupthink?

Answer 9

A process in which the member/s of the group do not follow group consensus

Question 10

What is a kinship?

Answer 10

It is a social institution that refers to relations formed between members of the society

Question 11

Kinship by blood:

What is consanguineal kinship?

Answer 11

It is kinship based on blood relations (kadugo)

ex. the relationship between a child and his parents

Question 12

Kinship by blood:

What is descent?

Answer 12

It refers to biological relationship, also refers to an individual’s child or offspring

Question 13

Kinship by blood:

What is lineage?

Answer 13

It refers to the line where one’s descent is traced

Question 14

Types of kinship:

What is unilineal descent?

Answer 14

It is descent traced by most societies through a single line of ancestors from either the male or female line

Question 15

Unilineal descent:

What is patrilineal descent?

Answer 15

It is when you trace your origins through the male line

Question 16

Unilineal descent:

What is matrilineal descent?

Answer 16

It is when you trace your origins through the female line

Question 17

Types of kinship:

What is bilateral descent?

Answer 17

It is the study of both parents’ ancestors, this is called nonunilineal or cognatic descent principle

Question 18

Kinship by marriage:

What is affinal kinship?

Answer 18

It is kinship based on marriage refers to the type of relations developed when a marriage occurs

ex. in-laws

Question 19

Kinship by marraige:

What is marriage?

Answer 19

It is an important social institution wherein two persons, a man and a woman enter into family life (Article 1 of the Family Code of the Philippines)

Question 20

Marriage:

What is endogamy?

Answer 20

Also known as compulsory marriage, it happens when people marry in their own village, community, ethnic, social, or religious group

Question 21

Marriage:

What is exogamy?

Answer 21

Otherwise known as out-marriage, it refers to a marriage custom where an individual is required by society’s norms and rules to marry outside of their own group, community or social class

Question 22

Marriage:

What is monogamy?

Answer 22

It refers to marriage or sexual partnering custom or practice where an individual has only one male or female partner or mate

came from the Greek words monos and gamos which literally means “one union”

Question 23

Marriage:

What is polygamy?

Answer 23

It refers to the practice of having more than one partner or sexual mate

Question 24

Polygamy:

What is polygyny?

Answer 24

A man has multiple female partners

Question 25

# Polygamy: Polyandry

Answer 25

A woman has multiple male partners

Question 26

# Post-marital tradition rules: What is the neolocal form of residence?

Answer 26

It is when couples would settle independently and build a home that is independent from the place of residence of both of their parents

Question 27

# Post-marital tradtional rules: What is the patrilocal rule of residence?

Answer 27

It occurs when married couples stay in the house of the husband’s relatives or near the husband’s kin

Question 28

# Post-marital traditional rules: What is the matrilocal rule of residence?

Answer 28

It occurs when married couples stay in the house of the wife’s relatives or near the wife’s kin

Question 29

# Post-marital traditional rules: What is the biolocal rule of residence?

Answer 29

It happens when the newlywed couple stay with the husband’s relatives and the wife’s kin alternately

Question 30

# Marriage: What is referred marriage?

Answer 30

It is when matchmakers help their single friends or relative to find their possible husband or wife by referring them to other people who are also interested in finding a life partner

Question 31

# Marriage: What is an arranged/fixed marriage?

Answer 31

Usually done by parents of the bride and groom, it is done to ensure that the person will marry the most appropriate person according to the rules set by family, community or religious group

Question 32

# Types of arranged marriage: What is child marriage?

Answer 32

It happens when parents arrange for the marriage of their child long before the marriage takes place

Question 33

# Types of arranged marriage: What is exchange marriage?

Answer 33

There is reciprocal exchange of spouses between two countries, tribes, or groups

Question 34

# Marriage: What is a diplomatic marriage?

Answer 34

Occurs when an arranged marriage has been established between two royal or political families in order to forge political alliance

Question 35

# Marriage: What is a modern arranged marriage?

Answer 35

The child’s parents with the consent of the child, choose from several possible mates. The two children will then be given a short time to get to know each other, after which the child will choose whom he or she will marry

Question 36

# Kinship by rituals: What is COMPADRAZGO?

Answer 36

It is a ritualized form of forging co-parenthood or family done through baptism, confirmation, or marriage | literally translated as “god parenthood”

Question 37

# Family and the household: What is family?

Answer 37

It is the basic unit of social organization made up of a group of individuals who are linked together by marriage, blood relations, or adoption | constitutes a single household with social roles such as mother, wife ## Footnote Dom Toretto

Question 38

# Different definitions of family: According to George Peter Murdock, the family is a social group that has what following characteristics?

Answer 38

- Share common residence - Presence of economic cooperation - Reproduce offspring - Responsible for the socialization of infants and children

Question 39

# Family and household: What is a one-person household?

Answer 39

It refers to an arrangement in which one person makes provision for his food or other essentials for living without combining with any other person | ex. living alone

Question 40

# Family and household: What is a multi-person household?

Answer 40

It refers to two or more persons living together who make common provision for food or other essentials for living | ex. family

Question 41

# Family: What is a nuclear family?

Answer 41

A type of family that is made up of a group of people who are united by social ties and is usually made up of two adults and their socially recognized children | TL;DR: the immediate family/parents and children

Question 42

# Family: What is an extended family?

Answer 42

It is a type of family whose members go beyond the nuclear family

Question 43

# Family: What is a blended family?

Answer 43

It is a type of family where the parents have a child or children from previous marital relationships but all the members stay and congregate to form a new family | aka a step family, reconstituted family or complex family ## Footnote that Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler movie

Question 44

# Kinship of politics: What are political dynasties?

Answer 44

It happens when politicians elected in public offices and government positions are relatives