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Knowledge Organiser Marxism
Knowledge Organiser Marxism
consumption
proletariat. The media and companies target children in their advertising who then persuade their
(Zaretsky)
parents through pester power to buy more expensive items. This is particularly bad in the UK
The family maintains capitalism and
Unit of
where there few legal restrictions on adverts aimed at children; in Sweden advertising aimed
reinforces social inequalities. at children under 12 is illegal
alienation
(Zaretsky)
Cushions
-Parsons – nuclear family is a functional fit
after the industrial revolution as they are
smaller and members have an achieved
status as opposed to an ascribed status this
means they are more geographically and Zaretsky argues that the family create the next generation of
socially mobile workers as children accept capitalist ideology
-The nuclear family has 2 irreducible
Reproduces
workforce
domestic work