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Marxism & Family - Coggle Diagram
Marxism & Family
ENGELS- Glorified prostitution: Women give sex & care to their husbands in exchange for financial security. They have to reproduce & perform unpaid labour & childcare
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ENGELS: Monogamous marriage: Argues that marriage & the family developed when people begun to own private property. Once people owned property (usually men) they wanted to ensure that the offspring they passed their property into when they died were definitely their own. With inheritance, there had to be restrictions on women's freedom. A women's sexuality had to be controlled so that male family lines continued
AO3: Functionalists would say sex is needed only in nuclear families to keep nuclear family line going- male & female role modes are needed
AO3-PARSONS: marriage is good it provides stability, families & socialisation
MARXIST FEMINISTS
Focus on women's domestic labour & the contribution it makes to the maintenance of capitalism. If women didn't provide this free of charge then they argue men's wages would have to be high enough to pay someone else to do that work
ANSLY: Argued that 'women are the takers of shit' they soak up men's anger & frustration towards capitalism.
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BENSTON: Women are the slaves of the wage slaves, they make sure men's emotional & physical needs are met
A03- WEAKNESSES: Ignores family diversity, most women are in the workplace, single mum parents, New man (shared conjugal roles), Wilkinson Gender Quake
ZARETSKY 1976: Observed how housewives kept capitalism going, performing free household tasks in the home & socialising future generation of workers (children). Also a unit of consumption. Families buy consumer goods that need to be purchased for capitalism to survive
products/activities the family consume: food, clothes, TV, electric, furniture, holidays
KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES: Families will compare with eachother to have latest material possessions
AO3- MURDOCK- SREE: Family benefits from it's members- economic functions ensures members basic needs are met
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ALTHUSSER: Believed in order for capitalism to survive the WC must submit to the ruling. Regressive State Apparatus (RSA): controls us by force- when the ISA isn't enough to control us (EG police)
Althusser said that the family is one way of passing on the ideology & beliefs of the ruling class (ISA). It teaches us that the hierarchy is natural & normal- creates a compliant workforce of the future
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EVALUATION- AO3
WEAKNESSES
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Functionalism & New right- women should stay at home as it's a goo way of ensuring children have 2 role models & socialisation
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Not everyone is brainwashed like Althusser said- we have free will, voting rights, freedom of speech
POSTMODERNISM (Beck): We live in a rapidly changing society, with changing N&V- increased choice & freedom
There are pros to the nuclear family- primary socialisation & Murdock SREE (Sexual, Reproduction, Economic, Education)
BORDIEU: Your families social class impacts your future- Bourgeoisie have advantage. Economic capital (money), cultural capital (skills, knowledge & experiences), social capital (who you know)