Eli Zarestky-(M)

• What sociologist approach was Eli Zaretsky?

  A Marxist Sociologist.
• What did Eli Zaretsky believe in about families?


  He took a critical view of the family

  He believed families benefited from an unfair capitalist system.
• What were the 5 key functions that Zaretsky believed families did to keep up capitalism?


  Unit Of Production

  Unit Of Consumption

  Inheritance Of Property

  Values Of Capitalism

  Unpaid Labour
• What is unit of production and how does it benefit capitalism?


  Members of the family would be responsible for making things that could be sold which would be sold and all profit goes to the bourgeoisie.
• What is unit of consumption and how does it benefit capitalism?


  Families buying things at higher prices than they're worth-and the profit goes to the bourgeoisie-ensures pauperisation occurs
• What is an example of unit of consumption within families?


  For example,families are encouraged to spend more and more on Christmas,which creates bigger profits for the bourgeoisie.
• When did unit of consumption start to occur?


  after industrialization
• What is inheritance of property and how does it benefit capitalism ?


  Families passing belongings onto their children when they die and benefits the rich as they pass huge amounts of wealth.This is a lot more then the rest of society.This means that inheritance traps money in wealthy families rather than redistributing it to the remainder of society.
• What is values of capitalism and how does it benefit capitalism?


  Families teach values of capitalism to their children.Children see their parents working and getting paid,and come to accept that,that is their futures,too.This leads to children being encouraged to imagine themselves in certain jobs and essentially asked to imagine how they will fit in an unfair capitalist system.
• What is unpaid labour and how does it benefit capitalism?


  Women either not working or doing both paid work and housework which means men can spend ore hours doing work in a capitalist workplace where they are exploited and families allow capitalism to continue providing this labour.