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Today’s study is Father Christmas Actually it is Marxism the family He didn’t really believe in Father Christmas he felt that religion was just another form of ‘ideological control’ So you can’t remember what this is? Click here and utilise this sociological dictionary from the website Find the old man reading the book and click there! Essentially try to think of brainwashing ‘the imposition of ideas upon people’ So Mr Marx and the Family To begin with any analysis of a Marxist view you have to understand his view on society. You have covered a little of this already. So the Christmas man begins with Capitalist society The bourgeoisie (the capitalists, or class that own control the means of economic production) In your Sociology in Focus this group is referred to as the “Ruling Class” Mr Christmas’s words ‘The Proletariat’S.I.F words ‘the subject class- the workers’ The Ruling class exploit the working class They work for the Ruling Class producing goods, and services and are paid a pittance. The rewards for all their hard labour are placed in the hands minority Ruling class! Conflict So Marx based his ideas on conflict between the ruling class and the subject class. The cause of the tension was economic inequality like functionalists he saw that social institutions in society helped maintain the status quo of society. Social Institution: The Family The family works to maintain the existing relations within society. Outline in what ways you see the family maintaining the existing state of society. Think how Marx would think, examine the economic relations! End analysis Capitalists use the family as a way of increasing their economic profits, and their oppression and control of the proletariat. Marx’s friend the feminist Engels The Origin of private property and the State 1884 Examined the evolution of family over time. He felt that the nuclear family emerged to deal with the problematic of male inhertance. Develop this idea forward yourself Cooper M