Learning Guide #6 - Kinship, Marriage and Family Flashcards
- The relation between two or more persons that are based on common ancestry or marriage
- The most universal and basic of all human relationships and is based on ties of blood, marriage, or adoption
- one of the most important organizing components of society. From East to West or North to South you will find this everywhere in the society. This social institution ties individuals and groups together and establishes a relationship between them.
Kinship
What is kinship?
The relation between two or more persons that are based on common ancestry or marriage
12 importance of kinship?
- Assigns guidelines for interactions between persons. It defines a proper, acceptable role relationship between father-daughter, brother-sister, etc.
- determines family line relationships.
- decides who can marry whom and where marital relationships are taboo.
- helps us to determine the rights and obligations of the members in all the sacraments and religious practices starting from birth to death.
- maintains the solidarity of relationships.
- In rural and tribal society’s kinship or kinship relations determine the rights and obligations of the family and marriage, a system of production, and political power.
- Kinship through its different usages regulates the behavior of different kin
- helps in (through kinship terms) designating kin of various types such as classificatory and descriptive.
- through its usages creates special groupings of kin.
- rules govern the role of relationships among kins.
- acts as a regulator of social life
- influences ownership of land, the concept of wealth, and the system of production and its use.
2 types of kinship
BLOOD RELATIONSHIP or Consanguinty
MARRIAGE or Affinity
This kinship is based on blood—or birth: the relationship between parents and children as well as siblings, says the Sociology Group. This is the most basic and universal type of kinship. Also known as a primary kinship, it involves people who are directly related.
BLOOD RELATIONSHIP or Consanguinty
This kinship is based on ______. The relationship between husband and wife is also considered a basic form of kinship.
MARRIAGE or Affinity
On the other hand, others say that there is a third category of kinship that involves _____.
social ties
Who defined social ties?
Schneider
What is Social ties?
There are also social kinships, where individuals not connected by birth or marriage may still have a bond of kinship, he said. By this definition, two people who live in different communities may share a bond of kinship through a religious affiliation or a social group, such as the Kiwanis or Rotary service club, or within a rural or tribal society marked by close ties among its members. A major difference between consanguineal or affinal and social kinship is that the latter involves “the ability to terminate absolutely the relationship” without any legal recourse, Schneider stated in his 1984 book, “A Critique of the Study of Kinship.”
(god parenthood) is an important feature of Philippines family life
Compadrazgo
Non-relatives are accepted into families as godfathers
padrinos
Non-relatives are accepted into families as godmothers
madrinas
Degree of kinship
Primary kin
Secondary kin
Tertiary kin
based on direct relations. Individuals or people that are directly related are said to be primary in nature.
Primary kinship
kin refers to that kin that is directly related to each other by birth. For instance association with or amongst parents and children and among siblings.
Primary consanguineal kinship
the relation that takes place with marriage is said to be Primary Affinal kinship. The direct primary affinal kinship is the husband-wife relationship.
Primary Affinal kinship
it means relations that come through primary kinship are said to be secondary kinship.
Secondary kinship
This kind of kin refers to primary consanguineal kinship. The basic example of secondary consanguineal kinship would be the relationship between grandparents and grandchildren.
Secondary Consanguineal kinship:
This kind of kinship refers to primary affinal kinship primary kinship. For example, Anita’s husband is her primary affinal kinship and for Anita’s husband, her parents and siblings are his primary kin. Therefore means the relationship between Anita and her sister-in-law/brother-in-law or parents-in-law and vice versa is said to be Secondary Affinal kinship. Also, your sibling’s spouse and his/her parents-in-law will be his secondary affinal kinship.
Secondary Affinal kinship
is the secondary kinship of our primary kin or primary kin of our secondary kinship. For example, the wife of our brother-in-law would be related to us as tertiary kin.
Tertiary kinship
An example of _____ would be our primary consanguineal kins (i.e. our parents) primary kins (i.e. our parents’ parents meaning our grandparents) primary kins. (i.e. our grandparents’ parents)
tertiary consanguineal kinship
It means primary affinal kins primary kin or secondary affinal primary kin or primary affinal kins secondary kin. For example, our spouse’s grandparents or grand uncles and aunties.
Tertiary Affinal kinship
the socially existing recognized biological relationships between people in society. Every society looks at the fact that all offspring and children _____ from their parents and that biological relationships exist between parents and children. The _____ is used to trace an individual’s ancestry.
descend
TYPES OF RELATIONSHIP ACCORDING TO DESCENT
PATRILINEAL (or agnatic)
MATRILINEAL (or uxorial)
BILATERAL
systems, in which the relationships reckoned through the father are emphasized.
PATRILINEAL (or agnatic)
systems, in which the relationships reckoned through the mother are emphasized.
MATRILINEAL (or uxorial)
method of tracing the lineage of children equally through the ancestors of both mother and father.
BILATERAL
Relations of descend according to authority
PATRIARCHAL
MATIARCHAL
EQUALITARIAN
may be defined as the “rule of the father” Patriarchy, hypothetical social system in which the father or a male elder has absolute authority over the family group; by extension, one or more men (as in a council) exert absolute authority over the community as a whole.
Patriarchal
a hypothetical social system in which the mother or a female elder has absolute authority over the family group; by extension, one or more women (as in a council) exert a similar level of authority over the community as a whole.
MATIARCHAL
