URBAN SOCIOLOGY

Martinelli Ladores Cabullos

MAED-Sociology
 FAMILY IN THE URBAN AREAS
FAMILY - a group of persons united by the ties of marriage, blood,
or adoption, constituting a single household and interacting with
each other in their respective social positions, usually those
spouses, partners, children, siblings.
TYPES OF FAMILIES
1. Nuclear family: A family unit consisting of at most a father,
mother and dependent children. It is considered the “traditional”
family.
2. Extended family: A family consisting of parents and children,
along with grandparents, grandchildren, aunts or uncles, cousins etc.
3. Step families: Two families brought together due to divorce,
separation, and remarriage.
4. Single parent family: This can be either a father or a
mother who is singly responsible for the raising of a child. The
child can be by birth or adoption. They may be a single parent
by choice or by life circumstances. The other parent may have
been part of the family at one time or not at all.
5. Adoptive family: A family where one or more of the
children has been adopted. Any structure of family may also
be an adoptive family.
6. Bi-racial or multi-racial family: A family where the parents
are members of different racial identity groups.
7. Trans-racial adoptive family: A family where the
adopted child is of a different racial identity group
than the parents.
8. Blended family: A family that consists of members
from two (or more) previous families.
9. Conditionally separated families: A family
member is separated from the rest of the family. This
may be due to employment far away; military service;
incarceration; hospitalization. They remain significant
members of the family.
10. Foster family: A family where one or
more of the children is legally a temporary
member of the household. This “temporary”
period may be as short as a few days or as
long as the child’s entire childhood.
11. Gay or Lesbian family: A family where
one or both of the parents’ sexual orientation
is gay or lesbian. This may be a two-parent
family, an adoptive family, a single parent
family or an extended family.
12 Immigrant family: A family where the parents have
immigrated to another country as adults. Their children may or
may not be immigrants. Some family members may continue
to live in the country of origin, but still be significant figures in
the life of the child.
13 Migrant family: A family that moves regularly to places
where they have employment. The most common form of
migrant family is farm workers who move with the crop
seasons. Children may have a relatively stable community of
people who move at the same time - or the family may know
no one in each new setting. Military families may also lead a
migrant life, with frequent relocation, often on short notice.
RURAL AREA
is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities.
Typical rural areas have a low population density and small
settlements. Agricultural areas are commonly rural, as are other
types of areas such as forest.

TYPE OF RURAL AREAS

1. Compact – based on farming
2. Semi-compact – is a transitional phase in the growth of
compact settlement.
3. Dispersed – generally form in the hill, plateaus, and
grasslands.
Population in Rural Areas
• Philippines’s PH: Rural Population: % of Total
Population data was reported at 53.318 % in Dec
2017. This records a decrease from the previous
number of 53.525 % for Dec 2016. Philippines’s
PH: Rural Population: % of Total Population data
is updated yearly, averaging 54.742 % from Dec
1960 to 2017, with 58 observations. 
URBANIZATION
• Urbanization is as much a social process as it is
economic and territorial process. It transforms
societal organizations, the role of the family,
demographic structures, the nature of work, and
the way we choose to live and with whom. It also
modifies domestic roles and relations within the
family, and redefines concepts of individual and
social responsibility.
URBAN AREA
• Is a human settlement with high population
density and infrastructure of built environment.
Urban areas are created through urbanization
and are categorized by urban morphology as
cities, towns, conurbations or suburbs.
• Includes the city itself, as well as the surrounding
areas.
POPULATION IN URBAN AREAS
• URBAN POPULATION
refers to the people living in urban areas according Philippine
Statistics Office (PSA).

• Urban areas tend to also be home to concentrations of

power, such as government capitals and corporate
headquarters, and the wealthy and powerful people that are
employed in them.

URBAN CULTURE
Is the culture of town and cities. The presence of a great
number of very different people in a very limited space.
URBAN LIFESTYLE
a group of people that all gather at a particular
home and spend 90% of there time there.

URBAN SOCIETY
a society that is typical of modern industrial
civilization and heterogeneous in cultural
tradition, that emphasizes secular values, and that
is individualized rather than integrated —
contrasted with folk society.
URBAN FAMILY
Group of people living in inner cities who have
become just as good as family members through
sharing time, space and life but who are not
related to each other by blood.
FAMILIES AND LIVING ARRANGEMENTS

• The evolution to an urban society is also

frequently equated with a decline in a status of
the family , and with proliferation of non
traditional family forms and new types of
households. By nontraditional we mean those
families without two parents and or without
children. This trend is in part a reflection of an
increasing diversity in “choices of living
arrangements”.
 “ You don’t choose
your family. They are
God’s gift to you, as
you are to them”
• Thank you very much!