Marxist view on family

Question 1

What does Zaretsky believe

Answer 1

Primary socialisation just teaches children how to be workers (traits like obedient) creating conformist citizens and passive workers who are happy to be exploited

Stabilization of adult personalities just allows a safe space for men who are exploited for their labour at work. The nucler family dampens ill feeling to capitalism as married men can’t be involved in strikes or boycotts as they have a family to feed. In1980s Ford only hired married men

Family is a unit of consumption of goods and servuces, acting as a market for these goods, but also a market for workers as family teaches children that wealth is important for happiness

Question 2

Engles

Answer 2

Family and monogamous relationships were only introduced to allow the beourgoise to pass down and reproduce their wealth.

Question 3

Evaluation

Answer 3

Not all families reproduce di
Some wc families like the comfortableness provided by campitalism
Structural theory - disregards day-day life and interactions