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Mind Map by Phoebe Fletcher, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Phoebe Fletcher
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Marxist view on the Family
- See the family within the
framework of a 'capitalist
society'
- The Nuclear family is concerned
with social control by teaching its
members to submit to the capitalist
class
- The Nuclear family reproduces
unequal relationships, and
works to damp down inevitable
social conflict
- A 'capitalist society'
which is based on private
property, driven by profit
and riddled with conflict
between social classes
- The Nuclear family is concerned
with social control by teaching its
members to submit to the capitalist
class
- Engels (1820-95)
- Believed that he
monogamous nuclear
family developed as a
means to pass on
property
- Monogamy - A form
of marriage which a
person can only be
legally married to
one partner at a
time
- The family along with
monogamy was an
ideal mechanism as it
provided a proof a
paternity, and so
property could be
passed on to the right
people
- Women's role in
this family was
not that different
to that of
prostitutes
- She provided the
sex and heirs
- He provided
the wife with
economic
security
- She provided the
sex and heirs
- Believed that he
monogamous nuclear
family developed as a
means to pass on
property
- Althusser (1971)
- Argued that in order for
capitalism to survive the working
class must submit to the ruling
class (bourgeoisie)
- He suggested that the family is
one of the ideological state
apparatuses which teach the
riling classes ideology
- The ruling class must therefore maintain a false
class consciousness, through winning the
hearts and minds of the working class
- The ruling class must therefore maintain a false
class consciousness, through winning the
hearts and minds of the working class
- Ideological State Apparatuses -
Agencies which serve to spread the
ideology, and justify the power of
the dominant social class
- Argued that in order for
capitalism to survive the working
class must submit to the ruling
class (bourgeoisie)
- Zaretsky (1976)
- Emphasizes with the
ideological role of the family
in propping in capitalism
- He sees the family as an
escape route from
oppression and
exploitation at work
- A private place where (particularly male
workers) can enjoy a personal life and be
valued as individuals as well as gain some
control of their lives
- A private place where (particularly male
workers) can enjoy a personal life and be
valued as individuals as well as gain some
control of their lives
- The family helps workers to live
with their daily oppression in
the world of work
- Families bolster capitalism
- Emphasizes with the
ideological role of the family
in propping in capitalism
- Criticisms
- The traditional
Marxist's
prespective
tends to be
old-fashioned
- The Idea that mean marry
and have children ignores
other reasons for getting
married and forming family
- Many women now work and
have independent incomes,
and are therefore far less likely
to marry for economic security
- The Idea that mean marry
and have children ignores
other reasons for getting
married and forming family
- Marriage is less of a social necessity
- The idea of families existing
purely to pass on ruling
class ideologies, ignores
other things going on the
family
- In the 2003 report 'Changing Britain, Changing
Lives' it was found that people are now more
likely to marry for love and affection rather
than as a social obligation
- There is a growing emphasis on the emotional
aspects of a relationship, and personal fulfilment
for both men and women
- There is a growing emphasis on the emotional
aspects of a relationship, and personal fulfilment
for both men and women
- The traditional
Marxist's
prespective
tends to be
old-fashioned
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