Kinship, Descent, Marriage and Household Flashcards
It is the web of social relationship that form an important part of the lives of most humans in most societies.
Kinship
Origin or background of a person in terms of a person in terms of family or nationality. It is a biological relationship.
Descent
It is culture-specific, each culture has their own custom and way of marriage.
Marriage
It includes individuals who forms a family weather by the conventional image or not.
Household
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.
Kinship by blood or Consanguinal Kinship
Two Principles of Descent
Unilineal descent and Bilateral descent
It is usually traced through a single line of ancestors from either male or female.
Unilineal descent
Two basic forms of Unilineal descent
Matrilineal and Patrilineal
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.
Bilateral descent
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.
Kinship by marriage or Affinal kinship
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
Kinship by rituals or Compadrazgo
It refers to marriage within their own clan or ethnic group.
Endogamy or compulsory marriage
It refers to marriage outside their own clan or ethnic group.
Exogamy or out-marriage
It is the marriage between two equal status
Isogamy
It is an asymmetric marriage alliance between two individuals belonging to different social statuses
Anisogamy
It is the marriage of a woman with a man of higher Varna or superior caste
Hypergamy
It is the marriage of high caste man with a low caste woman.
Hypogamy
It is the marriage between selected groups.
Orthogamy
It is two or more men get married to two or more women.
Cerogamy
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.
Anuloma Marriage
It is the marriage of a woman to a man from a lower caste
Pratiloma marriage
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.
Marriage
The parents of a small child arrange a future marriage with another child’s parents. The children are betrothed to each other.
Child Marriage
The form of marriage involves reciprocal exchange of spouses between two nations, groups, or tribes.
Exchange Marriage
Marriage are arrange for political reasons to cement alliances between royal families.
Diplomatic Marriage
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.
Modern arrange Marriage
It occurs when the married couple stays with or near the husband kin or relatives.
Patrilocal
It occurs when the married couple stays with or near the wife’s kin or relatives.
Matrilocal
It occurs when the resides with or near the maternal uncle of the groom.
Avuncolocal
It occurs when the married couple stays with the groom’s or bride’s family.
Ambilocal
It occurs when the married couple stays with the groom’s or bride’s family.
Ambilocal
It happens when the couple stays or build a home independently from the husband or wife’s kin.
Neolocal
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.
Beanpole
An extended family sharing the same household
Classic extended family
A couple living together who aren’t married
Cohabitation
A family containing relatives in addition to the nuclear family.
Extended family
same sex couple living together with children
Gay or Lesbian family
It is the relatives based on marriage or genes
Kin
It is the relatives based on marriage or genes
Kin
It is a lone parent (either gender) with dependent children
Lone parent family
extended family living apart but still in communication via phone, email, Skype etc.
Modified extended family
A married couple of the opposite sex, who have sexual relations with each other family data
Monogamy
A family consisting of an adult male and female with one or more children (including adopted)
Nuclear family
marriage involving two or more wives or husbands
Polygamy
It is a type of polygamy in which a woman marries more than one man at the same time
Polyandry
type of polygamy in which a man marries more than one woman at the same time
Polygyny
A family formed out of another relationship, otherwise known as a step-family
Reconstituted family (blended family)
An authority and household tasks shared between male and female partners
Symmetrical family
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.
Political family or Political dynasty
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.
Political alliance
