Marxist View - Family
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- Created on: 26-06-18 22:20
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- Family helps maintain class inequality and capitalism
- 3 functions perform fulfilling for capitalism:
- Inheritance of property
- Ideological functions
- A unit of consumption
- Engels - economic production determines the structure of the family
- Early Classless Societies:
- Primitive communism
- Means of production owned communally
- Family in its strictest sense didn't exist
- Tribes - no sexual restrictions
- Industrialisation:
- Emergence of private family
- Men needed certainty over paternity of their children - inheritance
- Patriarchal monogamous nuclear family emerged
- = women become 'mere instrument for the production of children'
- Althusser - ISA
- Family part of ISA and agent of social control as it promotes capitalismas equal and just encouraging conformity and obedience
- Children socialised into accepting hierarchy…
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