Family - Topic 1 - Marxism

• How many Marxists are there when exploring the family?

  4
• What are the names of the Marxists?

  Engels

  Althusser

  Zaretsky

  Hochschild
• What did Engels explore?

  The way the nuclear family is a way of passing on wealth
• What did Althusser find out?

  That the family is an ideological state apparatus
• What did Zaretsky find out?

  The family plays an ideological role in propping up capitalism - it cushions the oppression
• What did Hochschild find out?

  All aspects of the family life have become commodified