1. The Marxist perspective on the family
The Marxist perspective comes from Frederick Engel, which it stressed on the
patriarchal structure of families. Basically the Marxism suggested males are the
dominant of the whole family. For instance, it's essential to solve the problem of the
inheritance of the private property in order to pass them to their children/heirs; in
another words, it's unlikely for women to be a part of the responsibilities because
they've been designed to be controlled by the family in the Marxist view.
The socialisation in the Marxist view is that the family socialise children into
accepting values of capitalism, which to be clear with the status/level within
hierarchy. The bourgeois nuclear family emerged with capitalism, this leads to the
patriarchal power of male to be dominating the inheritance property. Women, on the
opposite side, would be powerless for any decisions to be made within the family but
only to obey.
Females would have more domestic work at home whilst males are working,
communicating and socialising more outside. They rear children and look after their
husbands due to the non-costly domestic works/choirs.
Families also act as a safety valve toward those bourgeoisie men, which diverts their
stress, anger and frustration. Meanwhile, Marxists also state their perspective of
males would be less likely to go on trike throughout families play an important role to
take responsibilities of them.
As in unit of consumption, families consume goods and services that provided by the
capitalism. The Marxist view doesn't take in part of the family diversity, they believe
that the nuclear family is determined by our economy nowadays.