Marxist views on the role of the family
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- Marxist views on the role of the family
- Marxists are not critical of the family, but how capitalism has exploited it
- The focus on the way family life operates in a capitalist society
- The functions of the family are performed purely for the benefit of the capitalist system
- Marxists explain how future generations of workers being maintained by the family keep capitalism going
- The norms and values people learn through family socialisation are part of the capitalist ideolgy
- Engels - The modern nuclear family was developed in a capitalist society out of necessity.
- Zaretsky
- claimed the family “props up” capitalim
- Evidence for Zaretsky’s View - Working class families are encouraged to pursue false needs in the form of the latest consumer goods and judge themselves in a comparison of possessions
- Criticisms of Zaretsky - COOPER - Sees the family as an ‘ideological conditioning device’ in which children learn to conform to authority so they will become cooperative and easily exploited workers
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