The document defines family and discusses its key elements. A family is a basic social unit that typically consists of a married couple and their children who share residence and economic ties. It performs important social functions like biological reproduction and socializing children. Family structures can vary across cultures and include nuclear, extended, single-parent, and non-traditional configurations. Marriage is usually the foundation of family but definitions differ globally.
The document defines family and discusses its key elements. A family is a basic social unit that typically consists of a married couple and their children who share residence and economic ties. It performs important social functions like biological reproduction and socializing children. Family structures can vary across cultures and include nuclear, extended, single-parent, and non-traditional configurations. Marriage is usually the foundation of family but definitions differ globally.
The document defines family and discusses its key elements. A family is a basic social unit that typically consists of a married couple and their children who share residence and economic ties. It performs important social functions like biological reproduction and socializing children. Family structures can vary across cultures and include nuclear, extended, single-parent, and non-traditional configurations. Marriage is usually the foundation of family but definitions differ globally.
The document defines family and discusses its key elements. A family is a basic social unit that typically consists of a married couple and their children who share residence and economic ties. It performs important social functions like biological reproduction and socializing children. Family structures can vary across cultures and include nuclear, extended, single-parent, and non-traditional configurations. Marriage is usually the foundation of family but definitions differ globally.
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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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