Lesson 1: Kinship, Marriage, and the Household
Social relationships and connections that exist among individuals based on blood ties, marriage, or adoption. It encompasses the bonds and networks formed through family relationships.
Kinship
Refers to the relationships between individuals who are
biologically related by blood. This type of kinship includes immediate family members such as parents, siblings, and children, as well as extended family members like grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins.
Kinship by Blood / Consanguineal Kinship
Refers to how people trace their family roots and
heritage, showing where they come from. It helps determine how relationships and responsibilities are organized within a family or group.
Descent
A system where ancestry and inheritance are
traced through the mother.
Matrilineal Descent
A system where ancestry and inheritance are
traced through the father.
Patrilineal Descent
A system where ancestry and inheritance are traced through both the mother’s and father’s sides of the
family equally.
Bilateral Descent
Refers to the type of relations developed when a marriage occurs. These implies that the families of both the husband and the wife form social relations with each other.
Kinship by Marriage / Affinal Kinship
An important social institution wherein two persons, a man and a woman, enter into family life. In addition, They make a public, official, and permanent declaration of their union as lifetime couples.
Marriage