MARXISTS

• • Marxists are critical of the role that the family plays in supporting capitalism
  • Marxists believe that the function of the family is to support the needs of the rich (the bourgeoisie)
• • Marxists are critical of the nuclear family and its role in maintaining the capitalist system
  • They argue that the nuclear family recreates inequalities between social classes overtime (eg the rich can pass on wealth to next generation)
  • Through socialisation within family, working class children learn to accept their lower position in an unequal society and see the system as fair