marxism

Question 1

marxism

view on family?

Answer 1

• don’t regard NF as functionally neccesary, framework of capitalist society
• private property, driven by profit, & riddled by confilict w social classes

Question 2

marxism

view on family

nuclear families functions in capitalist society?

Answer 2

• socially control: submit to capitalist R/C
• reproduce inequalities: via R/C networks
• dampen down ineviatble social conflict: discouraging workers from losing wages by going on strike

Question 3

marxism

view on family, functions

family is core market to consumption of goods?

Answer 3

• adverts target families
• media target children “pester power” to persuade
• children who lack latest fashion & gadgets mocked
• financhally support family memebers, decrease a proleteriat revolution: earning money to support

Question 4

marxism

Engels view on family

Answer 4

• monogamous NF developed a means of passing on private property to heirs, provided proof of paternity, passed onto right people
• women’s position, prostitue, provided sex & heirs in return for money
• only achieve liberation from patriachal control w/ overthrow capitalism
• a classless society : patriacrchal NF

Question 5

marxism

Engels evaluation?

Answer 5

• old fashioned: new gender roles now
• benefits women: emotional support

Question 6

marxism

Zaretsky views on family?

Answer 6

• ideological & economic roles, capitalism & false class consiousness

Question 7

marxism

Zaretsky

primary socialisation & parental power over children?

Answer 7

• ” age patriarchy” someone always in charge
• prepares them for working life in capitalist society, accept orders

Question 8

marxism

Zaretsky

buffer zone?

Answer 8

• family can be themselves at home and have “private life” away from alienation of capitalism
• ideollogical illusion, domestic exploitation of women, labour of love, unpaid domestic labour
• capitalism consious supply

Question 9

marxism

Zaretsky

unit of consumption?

Answer 9

• family is the market for sale of goods
• making profit by selling their labour back to them
• “pester power”
• family wants latest trends

Question 10

marxism

Zaretsky evaluation?

Answer 10

• families know they’re being “brainwashed” can’t resist, families depend on wages
• employees easily replaced
• based on NF ignore other family types

Question 11

marxism

Althusser view on family?

ideological state apparatus?

Answer 11

• W/C submit to R/C
• family is an ISA, socialisation & passing on R/C ideology
• the R/C try to maintain false class consiousness

Question 12

marxism

Althusser view of family?

maintain false consiousness by winning hearts of W/C?

Answer 12

• “superstructure” of society, family reflect & reinforce economic needs of capitalist
• controlled by bourgeiouse support R/C

Question 13

marxism

Donzelot

controlling the working class families ?

Answer 13

• state policies & proffesionals
• policing families directly
• poor families targetted, identified to cause crime & anti-social behaviour; “ problem families” requiring improvment

Question 14

marxism

Donzelot evaluation

Answer 14

• failing to identify who benefits from policing the family, operate in interviews of capitalism
• feminsist: men benefit