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A Family – a group of people who have

common residence and or relationship, and


who share economic reproductive ties.
 * married couple
 * married couple with one/more unmarried
children
 * Father with one /more unmarried children
 * Mother with one / more unmarried children
 Elements / components
 1. Biological component – with child/children
unmarried
 2. Functional function – takes care of
childrens , provides economic support
 3. Residential component – living under one
household or common residence.
 Family must have to address the 3
components :
 1. Residential
 2. Biological
 3. Functional roles
 Challenges ( Exception ) to the definition
 a. Nayar marriage and Family
 b. socialization by kinship
 c. single-parent household
 d. Gay couple living together
 e. overseas families whose members don’t
live regularly with the family
B FAMILY is a basic unit of society that
performs several functions or roles for society
1 Biological reproduction
2 Primary agent of socialization of children
3 Institution for economic cooperation
through division of labor
 4 to care and nurture children to become
responsible adult.
C. In Social Science , Family is politically and
Ideologically imbued with sets of politically
and culturally constituted ideas about the
correct or moral ways in which people should
conduct their lives.
 MARRIAGE – special contract of permanent
union between man and woman entered into
in accordance with law for the establishment
of conjugal and family life.
 - it is the foundation of family and an
inviolable social institution.
 Family Code of the Philippines , same sex
marriage , & Polygamous marriage are
excluded from the definition.
 Different culture define marriage and family
in different way .
 Importance of the definition of the family:
 1. for family policies and goals,
 2.defines who the members are.
 - what benefits the family members may get .
 a. legitimate
 b. illegitimate
 c. adopted children
 3. Support
 a. legitimate
 b. illegitimate
 c. adopted children
COHABITANTS are couples who share a common
residence with a child but without the benefit of
marriage.
* In some countries cohabitants are not
recognized as family so they are not accorded
benefits.
 Marriage is the center of the kinship system.
 Marriage creates alliances and fictive kinship
among members of clan
 Kinship consists of three alliances :
 *Comprises forms of nomenclature and
classification
 *rules which affect people’s kinshipbehavior (
criminal laws ---good manners)
 * what people actually do
 Marriage serves as a ritual that create alliance
among kin groups.
 Endogamy is a practice of marrying within a
specific ethnic group, class, or social group.
 Exogamous is the practice of marrying
outside one’s group, which is common in
modern societies.
 The rule of exogamy create links between
groups.while the rule of endogamy preserve
separateness and exclusivity.
 Marriage as union of individual also establishes “
condanguineal “ ( blood relation)
 and relation by affinity.
 Two people are related by consaguinity if they
have common ancestor or one is descendant of
the other.
 Two people are related by affinity if they are
married , or if one person is related by blood to
the other person’s spouse.The link between kin
groups established by marriage is called affinal
links.
Person 1st degree 2nd degree 3rd degree 4th degree

Child or Parent Grandchild, Great grand Great-great


sister, brother, child, niece, grand
or grand- nephew, aunt, parent,grand
parent uncle, great niece.,grand
grand parent nephew, first
cousin, great
aunt, great
uncle, great-
great grand
parent
Person 1st Degree 2nd degree

Spouse, mother in law, Brother in law, sister in law,


father in law, son in law, spouse’s grand parent,spouse’s
daughter in law, stepson, grand child, grand child’s spuse,
step daughter, step Spouse of grand parent.
mother , step father
 Polygamous and Monogamous Marriage
 Polygamy is a marriage that includes more
than two partners.
 A man married to more than one wife at a
time , the relationship is called
polygyny..When a woman is married to more
than one husband at a time it is called
polyandry.
 If marriage includesmultiple husband and
wives, it is called group or conjoint marriage.
 Family and Household
 The difference between household and
family ,
 a. household may consist of only one person
but a family must contain at least two
members;
 b. the members of a multi- household need
not be related to each other, while members
of the family must be related
 In Anthropology , the term Monogamous and
Polygamous are applied regardless wether
the state recognizes or not .
 If a man marries several sisters , this practice
is called sororal polygamy .
 Types of Families
Nuclear and Extended Families
Nuclear family is the most basic family form
and is made up of a married couple and their
biological or adopted children.
Extended families includes the other members
of the kinship group such as your uncles,
grand parents, and cousins.
 Nuclearization of Families is a processwhich
refers to the growing predominance of
nuclear families over extended families in
both rural and urban areas which is brought
about by urbanization and economic
development.
 Families and the Role if Descent
 Two types of descent
 Unilineal
 * Matrilineal descent
 * Patrilineal descent
 * Neolocal descent
 * Patrilocality descent

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