🔥☑️✅☑️✅☑️✅🔹Marxist Arguments Flashcards
Name two things all Marxists view about the family
- Economic unit
- Passes on values
What did Althusser argue about the family and children
Families encourage. Gulden fo accept inequality
What two things do Marxists believe keeps the capitalist system going?
- consumerism ‘pester power’ keeps capitalism going
- Children inheriting property keeps capitalist system going
What does contemporary Marxist Zaretsky believe about the family?
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
Name 5 sociologists who could criticise Marxism
1) Parsons -warm bath theory
2) Durkheim -personality factories + organic analogy
3) Murdock -nuclear fam needed
4) Charles Murray -traditional monogamy’s marriage needed
What does Marxist David Cooper believe about the family?
It acts as a conditioning device, teaching Children to accept an authoritarian and profitable society
What does Diane Feeley argue about the family?
The family socialises young people to accept their place into a class based society, as the family teaches ‘passivity not rebellion’
What is Engles general perspective
There were two eras in history, the era of primitive communism and the era of capitalism
What did engles say about the era of primitive communism
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
What did Engels state about the era of capitalism
- Nuclear family based on monogamy only develop through the emergence of capitalism
- this caused accumulation of private property and wealth through inheritance
How does Peter Laslett criticise Engels theory
He found most families in medieval Britain were nuclear because of low life expectancy and high infant mortality
Name an obvious criticism of Engles views
NO HISTORICAL EVIDENCE OF AN ERA OF PRIMITIVE COMMUNISM
What did Kathleen Gough believe about Engels views
Supported the notion of free sexual relationships j. Primitive human societies by examining the behaviour of chimpanzees
What does Marxist feminist Margret Benson state about the family?
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
Name some negative evaluation of Benson
Genderquake (Wilkinson) which has created a ‘symmetrical family’ (Wilmott and young) e.g 70% of women work
Name some positive evaluation of benson
Anne Oakley In her book ‘the sociology of housework’ stars roles are not equal as 71% of men help with housework
What did Juliett Mitchell (Marxist feminist) find about the family? (1st point)
Women are disciplined by men in order to socialise them and aid ruling class as it relives revolutionary anger
What is juliett mitchell positively evaluated by?
1/4 of all women domestically abused
2012 NSPCC found 58,000 children had to live under protection of domestic violence and neglect
What was Mitchell’s second point about the family?
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
What does fran Ansley state?
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
What evidence supports Anslesys first argument
The Matthew effect, rich getting richer and poor getting poorer
What is ansleys second argument
Women are ‘takers of shit’ absorbing their husbands revolutionary anger at the expense of their own powerless oppression.
How do women being takers of shit benefit upper class?
Slows business owners to rest Stabely as there is little risk of a communist/socialist uprising
Who negatively evaluaates Ansley?
Steel and Kidd
