The family unit has been a socially constructed factor of society for a long period of time, vastly changing throughout generations; which has been noticed by all schools of thought founded in Sociology. ... Marxism focuses on the financial aspect of society, believing the family unit has a sole purpose of creating the next generation of workers for free; to eventually participate in cheap labour, benefiting the Bourgeoisie in a Capitalist society. ... Furthermore, women's domestic work is unpaid, which again benefits Capitalism as the female is keeping the working husband and future labo...

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In contrast, Nietzsche claims "the power of the past to enforce its claims on the future always forms a threat to the project modernism" which ultimately leads to generational unhappiness (Nietzsche, 34). ...

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This appears to devalue the argument further, seeing as this leaves only 14% of such companies being held within a family ownership after the first generation. ... Firstly, he examines the notion that the managers appointed by the owners of large companies do in fact constitute a new class, one that is 'moved by considerations other than those of the owners better, less "selfish", more "socially responsible" and more closely concerned with the "public interest" than old style capitalism' (p30) – surely a positive thing as the notion sees them as ...

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