Marxism and the Family
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- Created on: 14-06-17 19:05
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- Marxist View of the Family
- Core Concepts - Marxists believe the key roles are .....
- Socialise kids to conform to society - reproducing labour power and performing an ideological function (false class consciousness)
- Women's domestic work is unpaid which aids capitalism
- Family acts a safety valve for stress/frustration of workers
- The family is a unit of consumption
- Engels
- Primmitive Communism - Everything shared including women so their was no family unit as we know today
- Capitalism - Monogomous family units were created due to emerging capitalism and men needed to know who their kids were due to inheritance and private ownership
- Zaretsky
- Family was seen as a 'haven' as work in the factory was so alienating and work and the family were seen as separate
- However, the family can only 'cushion' the pains it can't provide the psychological and personal support to compensate
- The family is a 'prop' to capitalism
- Unit of Consumption- Allowing the bourgeoisie to keep on making profit
- Family is based on domestic labour of housewives who work for free and reproduce future generation of workers
- Althusser
- The family supports the superstructure, suggesting the family is an ideological status apparatus
- Passing on ruling class ideas and encouraging children not to questions capitalism or the inequality that comes from it
- Lasch and Donzelot
- Increased interference in the private world of the family.
- The family should give individuals the opportunity for self-expression and freedom
- Core Concepts - Marxists believe the key roles are .....
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