Marxist Theories and Critcisms on the Family
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- Marxist Theories and Criticisms
- Engels
- Inheritance of Property
- Created the need for monogamy so that fathers could pass down to legimate heirs
- Subjects women to unequal power within the home
- However
- Parsons (Functionalist)
- Women are naturally passive and expressive compared to a man's instrumental role
- Parsons (Functionalist)
- However
- Subjects women to unequal power within the home
- However
- This is historically inaccurate- monogamous and the nuclear family was found in hunter-gatherer groups
- Parsons (functonalist)
- The family functions are more due to socialization and stabilizing adult personalities
- Created the need for monogamy so that fathers could pass down to legimate heirs
- Inheritance of Property
- Zaretsky
- Benefits Capitalism
- 'Pressure Valve' offers emotional sercuity after a working day so they continue to be opressed by the higher classes
- However
- Somerville (Liberal Feminist)
- Exaggerates the importance of the family being a haven from capitalism and ignores the 'dark side' of the family e.g. domestic violence, creulty and incest
- Somerville (Liberal Feminist)
- However
- 'Pressure Valve' offers emotional sercuity after a working day so they continue to be opressed by the higher classes
- Benefits Capitalism
- Althusser
- Ideological State apparatus
- Maintains class oppression by socialization of capitalism ideologies down the generations
- However
- Feminist
- That kind of family ideology supports patriarchy and that men and women have separate roles within it
- Functionalist
- The family allows children to become effective adults in society
- Feminist
- Ideological State apparatus
- Engels
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