AQA GCSE Sociology · 8192

Capitalism, Family and Personal Life by Zaretsky

What you need to know

Analyze Zaretsky's Marxist perspective on the relationship between capitalism and the family.
Explain how the family acts as a prop to the capitalist economy by reproducing labour and serving as a unit of consumption.
Evaluate the argument that the family's 'private life' is an illusion and cannot compensate for capitalist alienation.