WHAT IS RITUAL

KINSHIP?
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 RITUAL KINSHIP
In the form ofgodparenthood (compadrazgo/ compadre
system) played an important role in strengthening
and extending the ties of kindship.
Parents selected godparents for a child at his or her
baptism, confirmation and marriage. The godparents
were then tied to the parents as co-parents. Those
chosen for the childs baptism were considered the
most important, and great care was exercised in their
selection.
Often parents asked a close, important relative or
politician to serve as godparent.
DEFINE HOUSEHOLD
IN YOUR OWN WORD.

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 HOUSEHOLD
Is composed of one or more people who
occupy a housing unit. Not all household
contain families, why? Because a
household is a housing unit that can be a
house, apartment, mobile home, a group of
rooms or a single room occupied as
separate living quarters.
TWO TYPES
OF
HOUSEHOLD
 FAMILY HOUSEHOLD
 Consist of two or more
individuals who are related
by birth, marriage or
adaptation.
 NONFAMILY HOUSEHOLD
 consist of people who live alone or who
share their residence with unrelated
individual. Includes unmarried couples
living together also the gay and lesbian
couples would be counted as nonfamily
households even though they might share
many characteristics of a family.
What Is a family in
your own word ?
 FAMILY
 Isa fundamental social group in society typically
consisting of one or two parents and their children.
But several modern family structures are excluded by
this definition, such as childless couples or other
variation on the family unit.
 Is
“two or more people who share goals and values,
have long term commitments to one another and
reside usually in the same dwelling”. It compasses
the vast majority of modern family unit.
FAMILY STRUCTURE
Is a family support system
involving two married
individuals providing care and
stability for their biological
offspring.
DIFFERENT TYPES
OF FAMILY
STRUCTURE
 NUCLEAR FAMILY
Isconsidered as the
“traditional family”.
It
consists of a mother, father
and their biological and
dependent children.
 EXTENDED FAMILY
A family consisting of parents and children
along with either grandparents,
grandchildren, aunts, or uncles and cousins
that are living together and working towards
common goals such as raising the children
and keeping up with the household duties. In
some circumstances, the extended family
comes to live either with or in place of a
member of the nuclear family.
 ALTERNATIVE FAMILY
Include homosexual
relationship, single parent
households and adopting
individuals.
 SINGLE PARENT FAMILY
Consists of one parent raising
one or more children on his own
without the assistance of the
other biological parent.
Its either single mother or single
father.
 CHILDLESS FAMILY
Consists of husband and wife living and
working together or a couples who either
cannot choose not to have children.
 Sometimes it is called as the “forgotten
family”.
 This families take on the responsibility of pet
ownership or have extensive contact with
nieces and nephews as a substitute for having
their own children.
 STEP FAMILY
Which involves two separate families
merging into one unit. It consists of a
new husband and wife and their
children from the previous marriage
or relationship.
Common as the nuclear family, but
they tend to have more problems such
as adjustment periods and discipline
issues.
 GRANDPARENT FAMILY
Wherein the child or children Is
raised by his grandparents and the
parents are not present in the childs
life. This could be due to parent’s
death, addiction, abandonment or
being unfit parents.
 TRANSITIONAL FAMILY
Are families [where family members]
live some or most of the time
separated from each other, yet hold
together and create something that
can be seen as a feeling collective
welfare and unity, “familyhood” even
across national borders.
 TRANSITIONAL PARENTHOOD:
o Ties
o Securing and future of children
o Physical separation
o Redefined family include pets and friends
o Pet as family
o Pet can also become members of a family unit
and add an element of responsibility to a family,
particularly children.
o For couples who cannot, or choose not to have
children, pets can be replacement and be loved
as dearly as children.
 FRIENDS AS FAMILY
People who have lost close family
members may create a family unit
of friends with similar interests and
goals to become replacements or
enhancement to a lacking family
structure.
Politics
of
kinship
 KINSHIP
 Is the web of social
relationships that form
an important part of the
lives of most humans in
most societies.
 KINSHIP POLITICS
Is commonly found in tribal societies
across the would where kin geneology is
applied to determine the system of
communal leadership.
 it is the traditional pattern of
bequeathing political power among
family members.
Is built in based on the classic political
principle: blood Is thicker than water.
 POLITICAL DYNASTY
 Is understood as a lineage of hereditary succession to an essentially same
position. Family members follow one another to the position.
 is the repeated election and re-election of close relatives with the same
surnames to offices in the local and national governments that are to use
their superior wealth, followers and access to public resources to favor
themselves. We have bad political dynasties and benevolent political
dynasties.
 A ruler in a dynasty is sometimes reffered to as a “dynast” and also used to
describe any member of reigning family who retain succession right to a
throne or refer to agnatic descendants of a realms monarchs, and
sometimes to those who hold succession rights through cognatic royal
descent.
 political dynasty is prohibited under the 1987 Constitution Congress. This
law want to limit the power of political clans by having three consecutive
terms for elective officials.
 DYNASTIC MARRIAGE
is one that complies with monarchial
house law restriction, o that the
descendants are eligible to inherit the
throne and/ or other priviledges.
 in the Philippines, politics is a blood
sport. Politicians often behave like
gladiators: to survive they have to
entertain the spectators. Filipinos have
come to accept election cheating as
normal.
 POLITICAL ORGANIZATION
 involves issues like allocation
of political roles, levels of
political integration,
concentration of power and
authority, mechanisms of social
control and resolving conflict.
 types of
political
organization
 BAND
 it is usually a very small
oftentimes nomadic group
that is connected by family
ties and is political
independent.
 TRIBE
it is a combination of small


kin or nonkin group linked by

a common culture that usually
act a one.
 CHIEFDOM
 a political unit headed by a
chief who held power over
more than one community
group.
Has a social ranking system.
What is the difference
of state from nation?
 STATE
It Is a political unit that
has severeignity legitimate
and ultimate authority of
the state over an area of
territory and the people
within it.
Political concept
 NATION
it is consists of distinct
population of people bound
together by a common culture,
history, and tradition who are
typically concentrated within a
specific geographic regions.
Ethnic concept.
 Authority
and
legitimacy
 LEGITIMACY
Is the acceptance of the
power by those who obey it –
not acceptance at the level
of agreeing that someone’s
authority is morally valid.
For example,
I might be a powerful boss who can
make people run around and do what I
want through feel. I have authority. But
people might just want that I should go,
or may only have negative opinion about
me.
The term “legitimacy” denotes a system
of government wherein “government’’
denotes “sphere of influence”.
 POLITICAL LEGITIMACY
 is considered a basic condition for governing,
without which a government will suffer
legislative deadlocks and collapse. For
example, the historical period of the zhou
dynasty (1046-256 b.c) wherein the political
legitimacy of a rule and government was
derived from the mandate of heaven, and
unjust rules who lost said mandate therefore
lost the right to rule the people.
 Types of
political
legitimacy
(by: german sociologist Max Weber)
 TRADITIONAL LEGITIMACY
 Derives from societal custom and
habit that emphasize the history of
the authority of tradition.
 The institutions traditional
government usually are historically
continuous, as in monarchy and
tribalism.
 CHARISMATIC LEGITIMACY
Derivesfrom the ideas and
personal charisma of the leader, a
person whose authoritative
persona charms and
psychologically dominates the
people of the society to agreement
with the government’s regime and
rule.
RATIONAL- LEGAL LEGITIMACY
Derives from a system of
institutional procedure, wherein
government institutions establish
and enforce law and order in the
public interest.
 through public trust.
 Forms of legitimate government
 Constitutionalism
 Communism
 Democracy
 Fascism
 Monarchy
 Authority
Viewed as legitimate often has the
right and justification to exercise
power. Power to command others
or not.
 authority becomes legitimate
when people who submit to that
authority accept the authority as
competent, sightful and moral.
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