Family : Marxist - Agency of Social Control

• Agency of Social Control

  Marists do not regard the nuclear family as a functionally necessary (and therefore universal institution. Marxists see the family within the framework of a capitalist society, which is based on private property, driven by profit, and riddled with conflict between social classes with opposing interests. Marxists argue that the nuclear family is concerned with social control by teaching its members to submit to the capitalist class, and they emphasise the ways the family reproduces unequal relationships and works to damp down inevitable social conflict.