Marxists
- Created by: alicegrieve
- Created on: 25-02-18 14:53
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- MARXISM
- SERVE CAPITALISM IN 4 WAYS
- socialise children to accept capitalism - father disciplines child showing them there's an owner
- womens domestic work unpaid -benefits capitalism
- family acts as a safety valve for stress & frustrations of WC men
- family acts as a unit of consumption - buys goods & services provided by capitalism
- ALTHUSSER
- in order for capitalism to survive people must be taught how to think & behave
- family best mechanism for transmitting dominant ideology
- dominant ideology = ideas & beliefs of how the family should operate
- ENGELS
- family within the framework of a capitalist society
- nuclear family is concerned with social control by teaching its members to submit to the capitalist class
- nuclear family developed as a means of passing on private property to heirs
- benefits capitalism - children become owners of property after dad dies & enforce their own rules
- ZARETSKY
- emphasises ideological role of family in propping up capitalism
- family an escape route from oppression & exploitation at work
- this release in the family helps them to live with this daily oppression in work & undermines opposition to capitalism
- CRITICISMS
- outdated - ignores other reasons for marriage (not just property)
- feminists - women have more of a role - independant & can work for own income, more than 'stress relievers'
- Morgan - source of power is food - women run the household so have more power
- SERVE CAPITALISM IN 4 WAYS
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