Theories of the family: Marxist Perspective
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- Theories of the family: Marxist Perspective
- The Basics
- Structural and historical approach
- Economic relations determine social relations
- Focus on how the nuclear family maintains capitalism and inequality
- Marxist Feminism
- Fran Ansley - women are the takers of ****
- Reserve army of labour
- Capitalism benefitting from unpaid labour of women
- Ideological functions of the family
- 'Privatised' nuclear family is political
- Unequal relations between parents encourages acceptance of hierarchy
- In reality, the family offers a 'safe haven' away from the harsh exploitation under capitalism. - Helps people put up with exploitation
- A criticism of the 'warm bath theory'
- Family is a 'unit of consumption'
- Privatised family is typically about leisure and consumption
- 'Keeping up with the Joneses'
- Advertising and poster power
- Engels - The nuclear family and private property
- The economic system determines the predominant type of family in society
- pre-industrial, traditional, 'primitive' society (Before capitalism)
- - No real wealth - Primitive communism - Collective ownership - Promiscuous hoard
- Emergence of capitalism
- - Wealth generation - Private Property - Individual Ownership - Patriarchal nuclear family
- Allows for transference of wealth from generation to generation
- - Wealth generation - Private Property - Individual Ownership - Patriarchal nuclear family
- pre-industrial, traditional, 'primitive' society (Before capitalism)
- The economic system determines the predominant type of family in society
- Evaluations
- Economically deterministic
- Nuclear families exist in non capitalist societies
- Non nuclear families exist in capitalist societies
- Engels' theory fails to explain why the family has to be patriarchal
- Other family types might be more functional for capitalism (e.g. step families)
- Economically deterministic
- The Basics
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