ABSTRACT
This chapter treats an area in the reproduction of consciousness relatively unexplored in the Marxist literature: the role of such institutions of reproduction as the educational system and the family. It argues that the economic system must be understood in light of the need to reproduce consciousness and modes of personal interaction through the lived experiences of daily activity. The chapter describes the role of the family in the reproduction of the class structure. It argues that the social relations of the educational encounter are predicated on prior experiences in family life. The chapter argues that there is also a tendency for the social relations of family life to correspond to the social relations of production, in the sense that the positions individuals hold in the hierarchy of production influence the structure of family life and the mode of raising children.
