marxism Flashcards
1
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marxism
view on family?
A
- don’t regard NF as functionally neccesary, framework of capitalist society
- private property, driven by profit, & riddled by confilict w social classes
2
Q
marxism
view on family
nuclear families functions in capitalist society?
A
- 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
3
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marxism
view on family, functions
family is core market to consumption of goods?
A
- 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
4
Q
marxism
Engels view on family
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- 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
5
Q
marxism
Engels evaluation?
A
- old fashioned: new gender roles now
- benefits women: emotional support
6
Q
marxism
Zaretsky views on family?
A
- ideological & economic roles, capitalism & false class consiousness
7
Q
marxism
Zaretsky
primary socialisation & parental power over children?
A
- ” age patriarchy” someone always in charge
- prepares them for working life in capitalist society, accept orders
8
Q
marxism
Zaretsky
buffer zone?
A
- 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
9
Q
marxism
Zaretsky
unit of consumption?
A
- family is the market for sale of goods
- making profit by selling their labour back to them
- “pester power”
- family wants latest trends
10
Q
marxism
Zaretsky evaluation?
A
- families know they’re being “brainwashed” can’t resist, families depend on wages
- employees easily replaced
- based on NF ignore other family types
11
Q
marxism
Althusser view on family?
ideological state apparatus?
A
- 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
12
Q
marxism
Althusser view of family?
maintain false consiousness by winning hearts of W/C?
A
- “superstructure” of society, family reflect & reinforce economic needs of capitalist
- controlled by bourgeiouse support R/C
13
Q
marxism
Donzelot
controlling the working class families ?
A
- state policies & proffesionals
- policing families directly
- poor families targetted, identified to cause crime & anti-social behaviour; “ problem families” requiring improvment
14
Q
marxism
Donzelot evaluation
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- failing to identify who benefits from policing the family, operate in interviews of capitalism
- feminsist: men benefit
