Marxist theories of Family
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- Created on: 07-01-20 20:39
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- inheritance of property
- prior to capitalism there was no family
- Friedrich Engels
- Patriarchal monogamous nuclear family
- monogomy became essential to ensure that you knew who your child was so that they were the heir to your property
- Ideological functions
- socialisation of children
- hierarchy and inequality are inevitable
- parental power prepares them for working life
- unit of conssumption
- media targets children who use pest power
- advertisers urge families to 'keep up with the jonses'
- Friedrich Engels
- Patriarchal monogamous nuclear family
- monogomy became essential to ensure that you knew who your child was so that they were the heir to your property
- Eli Zaretsky
- family performs an ideological function by offering an apparent 'haven' from the harsh exploitative world of capitalism
- this is largely an illusion
- Ignores the wide variety of family structures today by focusing on the nuclear family
- bias focus on class inequality
- feminists say that this focus on class undermines gender inqualities
- ignores the positive aspects of family life
- functionalists say that Marxists ignore the real benefits the family provides for its members
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