Marxism

• Marxism Warm bath theory/ Reproduction of Workforce

  Benston

  suggests the family helps capitalism replace/ reproduce the workforce

  Women help husbands by helping dispel anger towards work
• Marxism Patrilineal Descent

  Engels

  the family evolved from extended to nuclear so the rich could pass down their wealth to their children
• Marxism Safe Haven

  Zaretsky

  family performs an ideological function - a safe haven outside the exploitation of capitalism
• Marxism ISA and RSA

  Althusser

  sees the family as an institution that supports capitalism ideologically in similar ways to the Church and the Education system
• Marxism Safe haven

  Lasch

  supports the view of the family as a haven or retreat from capitalism
• Marxism ideological conditioning device

  Cooper

  talks about the family as an 'ideological conditioning device in an exploitative society'