Unit 1 SCLY1 - Culture and Identity; Families and Households; Wealth, Poverty and Welfare
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Families and Households: Marxism and the Personal Life Perspective
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Unit 1 SCLY1 - Culture and Identity; Families and Households; Wealth, Poverty and Welfare
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AQA A Level Sociology Book One Including AS Level
For anyone studying Families and Households in Sociology at A or AS Level, this document provides a thorough companion to your classes and textbook. Lesson 2/8 focuses on Marxism and the Family, and the Personal Life Perspective: views, reasons, case studies and evaluations, as well as all key term...
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Families and Households: Lesson 2
Marxism and the Family
Key Terms: Marxism argues that the family only benefits society and not the
Primitive communism- early class people within the family structure.
society.
Patriarchal monogamous nuclear As the pre-industrial family developed, so did profit and private
family- a family with a heterosexual property.
married couple without additional
Engels:
partners, with kids.
Ideology- set of dominant ideas and - Engels believed that the overthrow of capitalism will see
beliefs. gaining liberation.
Sociologists: - Families socialise children into the idea that hierarchy
Engels and inequality are inevitable.
Zaretsky
Zaretsky:
- Zaretsky disagreed with Parsons and argued that the family is not a haven.
- He believed that women are in servitude within the family structure,
Summary
Marxists believe that the family only benefits society as an institution. They disagree with Functionalism
in that the believe the functional fit theory mean that the family enabled capitalism to develop at the
expense of the family, and that it is not a haven for women, who are in servitude to a patriarchal
monogamous nuclear family.
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