Anthropology

FAMILY
-made up of individuals who works forward one's another emotional, physical, mor
al and social development
-smallest unit of society
-refer to a group of individuals who may/may not be related to each other by blo
od but give each other love and care and share each others joy and pains
HOUSEHOLD
-consists of people who occupy the same housing unit
Families perform important function such as:
1. Sexual Regulation (reproduction of the raise)
2. Economic Activity
3. Socialization
4. Enculturation - sharing culture within the family
KINSHIP
-refers to the number of people related, common descent, marriage, or adoption
Family Classification According to Structural Organization
1. Conjugal Family - composed o dmarried couple
2. Nuclear Family - composed of married couple and their children
3. Extended Family - a bigger grouping where relatives live in nuclear family
4. Solo Parent/Family - composed of one parent with his/her children
5. Joined Family - siblings with their spouses reside in one house
6. Truncated Family - grandparents adopt their grandchildren
7. Stem Family - the same as extended family but the main differendce is that ht
ey do not share the same house, their houses found in the same locality.
Family Classifications According to Family Patterns
1. Authoritarian Family - the father is the head of the family
2. Matriarchal Family - the mother is the head of the family
3. Permissive Family - every family member is free to make his/her decisions
4. Democratic Family - every member has rights and responsibilities.
Power within the Family
1. Patriarchal Family - the husband or the father is the formal head and the abs
olute power
2. Matriarchal Family - the wife or the mother is the formal head and the absolu
te power
3. Egalitarian family - the mother and the father has an equal power with their
children
------------------Population explosion - high birth, low death rate
Demography- study of population
Sources of Demographic Area
1. Population Census
2. Registriation Statistics
3. Sample Survey
4. Administration Records
Processes of Population change
1. Fertility - actual number of women born

Social cultural Factors

-Fertility Decline
-Education
-Female Labor force participation
- Higher income
-Org and industrialization
-Contraception
2. Mortality - number of deaths
Reason why women have longer life
- inherit rates
- estrogen hormones
- different lifestyles
3. Migration
Reasons why people migrate
-greater opportunities
- experience sophisticated technology
-overpopulation
-politics
-psychilogical, religious, med, social
Commonly Used Techniques in Family Planning
1. Natural Family Planning
-withdrawal
-calendar method
2. Condom
3. IUD - intra uterine device
4. Pills or oral contraceptive
5. Surgical Methods
-tuba legition (f)
-vasectomy (m)