SOCIAL CLASS INEQUALITIES Flashcards
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explanation 1
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Women reproduce the next generation of workers and socialise them
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Women reproduce the next generation of workers and socialise them
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Feeley
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Women reproduce the next generation of workers and socialise them (feeley)
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- The family teaches children to submit to parental authority which is seen to be patriarchal
- Women are socialised into accepting their subordinate positions
- Women emerge from family life preconditioned to accept their place in the capitalist hierarchy
- family is designed to teach passivity not rebellion and children are trained to be obedient and docile workers
- ocialises family members to accept traditional roles and the false idea that it is natural for them to take responsibilities for different roles
- This means that they become unquestioning
- Therefore the ideology of the family in a capitalist society supports patriarchy as it promoted passivity and conformity
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explanation 2
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Women’s domestic work is unpaid
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Women’s domestic work is unpaid
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benston
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Women’s domestic work is unpaid (Benston)
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- A wife keeps her husband in good running order by feeding and caring for him which is essential to the smooth running of capitalism
- The fact that a man must provide for his wife and children means that he is less likely to challenge capitalism
- The unpaid labour of women helps to support the capitalist system
- the capitalist system
- If women were paid a wage for their work, there would be a massive redistribution of wealth
- Benston is highly critical of the nuclear family and the woman’s role within it
Sees it as a stabilising force in capitalist societ
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explanation 3
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Women soothe the stresses and frustrations of the proletariat
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Women soothe the stresses and frustrations of the proletariat
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Ansley
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Women soothe the stresses and frustrations of the proletariat (Ansley)
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- Women’s role within capitalism aids false class consciousness
- As a husband returns home from being exploited at work, they take their frustrations and anger out on their wives
- Therefore women absorb their husbands legitimate anger and frustration at their powerlessness and oppression in the workplace
- women are ‘takers of shit’ on capitalist societies
- If all workers have their own sponge, this will aid false class consciousness and discourage a revolution as men are venting their frustrations at their wives rather than their exploitative employers.
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Explanation 4
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Women’s roles also support the capitalist ideology
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Women’s roles also support the capitalist ideology
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Brugel
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Women’s roles also support the capitalist ideology (brugel)
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- Women are a cheap reserve army of labour brought in the economic booms but then thrown out when they are not needed
- Due to the womens unpaid labour, they are flexible which would mean that they can help the capitalist society
