🔥☑️✅☑️✅☑️✅🔹Marxist Arguments

Question 1

Name two things all Marxists view about the family

Answer 1

• Economic unit

- Passes on values

Question 2

What did Althusser argue about the family and children

Answer 2

Families encourage. Gulden fo accept inequality

Question 3

What two things do Marxists believe keeps the capitalist system going?

Answer 3

• consumerism ‘pester power’ keeps capitalism going

- Children inheriting property keeps capitalist system going

Question 4

What does contemporary Marxist Zaretsky believe about the family?

Answer 4

The family is there to aid capitalism because the capitalist system is built on domestic labour of housewives who produce future workers that consume the products of capitalism increasing profits

Question 5

Name 5 sociologists who could criticise Marxism

Answer 5

1) Parsons -warm bath theory
2) Durkheim -personality factories + organic analogy
3) Murdock -nuclear fam needed
4) Charles Murray -traditional monogamy’s marriage needed

Question 6

What does Marxist David Cooper believe about the family?

Answer 6

It acts as a conditioning device, teaching Children to accept an authoritarian and profitable society

Question 7

What does Diane Feeley argue about the family?

Answer 7

The family socialises young people to accept their place into a class based society, as the family teaches ‘passivity not rebellion’

Question 8

What is Engles general perspective

Answer 8

There were two eras in history, the era of primitive communism and the era of capitalism

Question 9

What did engles say about the era of primitive communism

Answer 9

During early stages of human evolution there was no private property and the family did not exist

• humans lived in ‘promiscuous hordes’
• children were brought up by the whole tribe rather than parents

Question 10

What did Engels state about the era of capitalism

Answer 10

• Nuclear family based on monogamy only develop through the emergence of capitalism
• this caused accumulation of private property and wealth through inheritance

Question 11

How does Peter Laslett criticise Engels theory

Answer 11

He found most families in medieval Britain were nuclear because of low life expectancy and high infant mortality

Question 12

Name an obvious criticism of Engles views

Answer 12

NO HISTORICAL EVIDENCE OF AN ERA OF PRIMITIVE COMMUNISM

Question 13

What did Kathleen Gough believe about Engels views

Answer 13

Supported the notion of free sexual relationships j. Primitive human societies by examining the behaviour of chimpanzees

Question 14

What does Marxist feminist Margret Benson state about the family?

Answer 14

The expressive role of the housewife benefits the ruling class as their husbands work for them, and she cares and looks after the husband, increasing his efficiency

Question 15

Name some negative evaluation of Benson

Answer 15

Genderquake (Wilkinson) which has created a ‘symmetrical family’ (Wilmott and young) e.g 70% of women work

Question 16

Name some positive evaluation of benson

Answer 16

Anne Oakley In her book ‘the sociology of housework’ stars roles are not equal as 71% of men help with housework

Question 17

What did Juliett Mitchell (Marxist feminist) find about the family? (1st point)

Answer 17

Women are disciplined by men in order to socialise them and aid ruling class as it relives revolutionary anger

Question 18

What is juliett mitchell positively evaluated by?

Answer 18

1/4 of all women domestically abused

2012 NSPCC found 58,000 children had to live under protection of domestic violence and neglect

Question 19

What was Mitchell’s second point about the family?

Answer 19

Refers to women as the unpaid ‘reserve army of labour’

• housewife performs 90 hours housework weekly
• which would cost £700,000,000,000 to fund decreasing profits of ruling class as its equivalent to 3/4 of national wages

Question 20

What does fran Ansley state?

Answer 20

The expressive role of women acted as a security valve to withhold the frustration inside of their husbands caused by working under a capitalist regime.
Women calm men, relieving their anger and in doing so reduce the threat against capitalism

Question 21

What evidence supports Anslesys first argument

Answer 21

The Matthew effect, rich getting richer and poor getting poorer

Question 22

What is ansleys second argument

Answer 22

Women are ‘takers of shit’ absorbing their husbands revolutionary anger at the expense of their own powerless oppression.

Question 23

How do women being takers of shit benefit upper class?

Answer 23

Slows business owners to rest Stabely as there is little risk of a communist/socialist uprising

Question 24

Who negatively evaluaates Ansley?

Answer 24

Steel and Kidd