Sociology - Feminism and the Family
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- Marxism and the family
- Engels
- The era of Primitive communism
- Matriarchal society, people lived in promiscuous tribes and children were brought up by the tribe and not the family
- There was no private property
- The era of capitalism
- Private property began
- Made sure that the wealth was inherited by their children
- Man could be sure that the children had succession to his wealth
- There is no evidence that the primitive communism era even existed
- Gough- supports the notion of promiscuous tribes through the study of chimps
- There is evidence to support the link in the increase in monogomic families and the emergance of private property
- Laslett- monogmous nuclear families existed throughout history- medival times
- The era of Primitive communism
- Zaretsky- 3 functions of the family
- Socialisation of Children - children are socialised into believing that the ineqalities are natural
- Children often grow up and accept their lot with no complaint
- Family is an ideological agent of capitalism
- Physcological Outlet - the family acts as a comforting device for workers so they can go to work to be freshly exploited
- workers will not engage in behaviour that threatens the nuclear set up - wont complain about poor working standards
- Economic function
- The family are the main consumers of capitalist goods - they are convinced by media that they need to keep up with the jones and spend money on dispensible goods
- Marcuse - the family are convinced to want false needs such as gadgets that are soon out of date through capitalist ideology transmitted through the mass media
- Socialisation of Children - children are socialised into believing that the ineqalities are natural
- Bordeiu - it is difficult for working class to experience upward social mobility
- Cultural Capital - the right attitude to go to university and have the right expectations also manners and politenedd
- Social Capital - upper class families have more social ties which can benefit the child
- therefore through no fauilt of their own- working class parents are a cultural deficit
- Marxist feminism - it is capitalism that exploits women
- Benston - women are exploited through
- Paid - work - they are the reserve army of labour
- Economic - housework
- Reproduction - women bring up and look after the next workforce for free.
- Look after the male workers and make sure they are healthy
- Ansley -capitalism is the reason for domestic violence,
- women are abused by their husbands who are angry about their alienation at work
- Benston - women are exploited through
- Engels
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