Functions Of The Family Marxist Perspective

Question 1

Who benifits from the family

Answer 1

Bougeoise the rulling class serves to maintain the exploitation and oppression of the proletariat the WC
B own economic institutions and the p get exploited for their labour
P reproduced next generation of workers

Question 2

Inheritance engles

Answer 2

Modern nuclear family develop due to capitalist ideology industrialisation meant the ownership of private property became the heart of the family central concern of capitalism was to make sure that the owners prophecy was past legitimately to the heirs man have close control over women as they were their property this benefits capitalism as the rich inherit wealth and the poor inherit nothing

Question 3

Family reproduces capitalist ideology

Answer 3

Socializes children into believing that cats capitalism is fair just an inevitable exposing children to the idea that hierarchy and inequality or inevitable from day one someone is in charge their parents when they work they accept order from employees family arts is a shelter from harsh reality is a capitalism to their less violated to challenge social order

Question 4

Alienation

Answer 4

Where male proletariat workers are frustrated by the lack of control over their work family provides shelter from harsh realities encouraging them to continue men became more and more alienated by work women also took over the role of nurture offering emotional support to their husbands women are exploited both as a result of capitalism and patriarchy men take out that frustrations at work on their wives and are the takers of shit

Question 5

Family is key unit of consumption

Answer 5

Generate profits for capitalism key unit of consumption spend their wages buying the products that they have produced creating false needs children use pester power on their parents

Question 6

Marxists evaluation negatives

Answer 6

Deterministic overestimate how much the economy determines family life
Overly negative
Out of date don’t take into account diversity that exists in families today they assume all families and nuclear
Ignore patriarchy feminists say Marx’s ignore the importance of patriarchy and the inequalities experienced by women in the family
Over generalised blaming all the problems of the family on capitalism communist countries do experience problems in their families as well