Marxist view on the family
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- Created on: 03-03-20 12:07
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- Marxist view on the family
- Marxist view
- Marxists reject the consensus view which underpins both the functionalist and New Right view
- Marxists argue the family functions to serve the capitalist system
- Marxists such as Engels, Cooper and Zaretsky are very critical of the nuclear family
- Engels (1972, 1844)
- Engels argued the nuclear family was created by capitalism to ensure wealth stayed in the families of the bourgeoisie
- Engels also claimed the nuclear family oppressed women
- Zaretsky (1976)
- Zaretsky claimed the nuclear family socialise its children into bourgeoisie
- This allowed the bourgeoisie rule to go unquestioned
- Cooper (1968)
- David Cooper sees the nuclear family as an 'ideological conditioning device'
- It functions to socialise or brainwash children into being obedient and passively accepting their proleteriat status
- Marxist view
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