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Kinship, Descent, Marriage and Household Flashcards

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It is the web of social relationship that form an important part of the lives of most humans in most societies.

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Kinship

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Origin or background of a person in terms of a person in terms of family or nationality. It is a biological relationship.

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Descent

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It is culture-specific, each culture has their own custom and way of marriage.

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Marriage

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It includes individuals who forms a family weather by the conventional image or not.

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Household

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Refers to relationship by descent which refers to biological relations or by marriage. This achieved by birth and is existing between parents and their children, siblings, and other relatives.

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Kinship by blood or Consanguinal Kinship

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Two Principles of Descent

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Unilineal descent and Bilateral descent

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It is usually traced through a single line of ancestors from either male or female.

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Unilineal descent

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Two basic forms of Unilineal descent

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Matrilineal and Patrilineal

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Descent, affiliates a person with a group of relatives through either his or her parents. Kinship is traced through both ancestral lines of the mother and the father.

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Bilateral descent

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Refers to the type of relations developed when marriage take place. When marriage occurs, new forms of relationship are developed because the husband and wife forms new relations with the families of each other same as with their own families.

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Kinship by marriage or Affinal kinship

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Which means god parenthood. This is a system of fictive kinship that originates in the Medieval Catholic Church in Europe. This can be done through baptism, confirmation, or marriage. There are no blood relations but compadrazgos became a family because they were chosen by the biological

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Kinship by rituals or Compadrazgo

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It refers to marriage within their own clan or ethnic group.

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Endogamy or compulsory marriage

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It refers to marriage outside their own clan or ethnic group.

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Exogamy or out-marriage

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It is the marriage between two equal status

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Isogamy

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It is an asymmetric marriage alliance between two individuals belonging to different social statuses

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Anisogamy

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It is the marriage of a woman with a man of higher Varna or superior caste

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Hypergamy

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It is the marriage of high caste man with a low caste woman.

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Hypogamy

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18
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It is the marriage between selected groups.

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Orthogamy

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It is two or more men get married to two or more women.

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Cerogamy

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20
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It is a marriage under which a man can marry from his own caste or below, but a woman can marry only in her caste or above.

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Anuloma Marriage

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21
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It is the marriage of a woman to a man from a lower caste

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Pratiloma marriage

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It is also called matrimony or wedlock, is a socially or ritually recognized union or legal contract between spouses that establishes rights and obligations between them and their children, their in-laws.

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Marriage

23
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The parents of a small child arrange a future marriage with another child’s parents. The children are betrothed to each other.

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Child Marriage

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The form of marriage involves reciprocal exchange of spouses between two nations, groups, or tribes.

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Exchange Marriage

25
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Marriage are arrange for political reasons to cement alliances between royal families.

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Diplomatic Marriage

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The parents choose several possible mates for the child, sometimes with the help of child.
The parents will then arrange a meeting with the family of the prospective male and the two children will often have a short unsupervised meeting, such as an hour-long walk around the neighborhood. The child then chooses who they wish to marry.
Although parents may exert varying degrees of pressure on the child to make a certain choice.

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Modern arrange Marriage

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It occurs when the married couple stays with or near the husband kin or relatives.

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Patrilocal

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It occurs when the married couple stays with or near the wife’s kin or relatives.

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Matrilocal

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It occurs when the resides with or near the maternal uncle of the groom.

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Avuncolocal

30
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It occurs when the married couple stays with the groom’s or bride’s family.

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Ambilocal

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It occurs when the married couple stays with the groom’s or bride’s family.

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Ambilocal

32
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It happens when the couple stays or build a home independently from the husband or wife’s kin.

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Neolocal

33
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In countries like Britain and the US, the number of children per generation has steadily gone down, while life span has increased. This has led to a shape of family tree that some researchers have likened to a _______ — tall and thin, with few people in each generation.

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Beanpole

34
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An extended family sharing the same household

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Classic extended family

35
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A couple living together who aren’t married

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Cohabitation

36
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A family containing relatives in addition to the nuclear family.

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Extended family

37
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same sex couple living together with children

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Gay or Lesbian family

38
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It is the relatives based on marriage or genes

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Kin

39
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It is the relatives based on marriage or genes

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Kin

40
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It is a lone parent (either gender) with dependent children

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Lone parent family

41
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extended family living apart but still in communication via phone, email, Skype etc.

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Modified extended family

42
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A married couple of the opposite sex, who have sexual relations with each other family data

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Monogamy

43
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A family consisting of an adult male and female with one or more children (including adopted)

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Nuclear family

44
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marriage involving two or more wives or husbands

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Polygamy

45
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It is a type of polygamy in which a woman marries more than one man at the same time

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Polyandry

46
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type of polygamy in which a man marries more than one woman at the same time

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Polygyny

47
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A family formed out of another relationship, otherwise known as a step-family

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Reconstituted family (blended family)

48
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An authority and household tasks shared between male and female partners

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Symmetrical family

49
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A family in which several : members are involved in politics, particularly electoral politics. Members may be related by blood or marriage; often several generations or multiple siblings may be involved.

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Political family or Political dynasty

50
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It is also referred to as a political coalition is an agreement for cooperation between different political parties on common political agenda, often for purposes of contesting an election to mutually benefit by collectively clearing election thresholds, or otherwise benefiting from characteristics of the voting system or for government formation after elections.

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Political alliance

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