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11 Cards in this Set
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Low State Involvement Of Peoples Lives |
New Right theory believed that benefits and welfare act as a disincentive to looking after yourself and your own family |
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Conservative Government of 1980/90 |
New Right theory is clearly supported by the Conservative government due to their policy of reducing benefits and making cuts to government services. |
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Support of the nuclear family |
New Right believe that the nuclear family type and that other types of family (especially single mothers) cause social disruption. They also believe that the nuclear family is in decline |
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New Right Theorists are concerned about these changes as it meant there were fewer nuclear families. |
• rising divorce • more single parents and children being born to unwed parents • more cohabitation |
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The reasons for these changes are |
1. Breakdown of traditional family values 2. Over generous welfare benefits to single mothers - making it easy for fathers to neglect their responsibilities to raise and provide for children 3. Feminism devalued marriage, domesticity and child rearing. 4. Changes in social attitudes to sexual behaviour outside marriage. |
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Those changes contribute to- |
• dependency culture • higher crime rates • juvenile delinquency • anti-social behaviour • educational failure |
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Charles Murray - New Rabble |
He believe there was a growing underclass (new rabble) in society - made up of people dependent on benefits, a large number of which he identified as single mothers. |
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Charles Murray - new Victorians |
• Upper middle class Murray admired the New Victorians because ,to him, they have family responsibility, fidelity, loyalty and discipline. |
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Dennis and Erdos - Families without Fatherhood |
Children were increasingly being raised by single mothers. They tend to have poorer health and lower educational achievements than children in nuclear families. Due to single mothers boys feel up without the expectation of responsibility for a wife and children in their future. This results in immature, anti-social and irresponsible men. |
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Criticisms - Abbott and Wallace - Femenists |
Their ideas are exploitive of women. They focus on the ideal nuclear family and ignore that all women are happy to be full time homemakers. new Right also assume that all nuclear families are happy units that can NOT be dysfunctional. |
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Criticisms - other |
The idea of traditional family values is misleading. New Right theorists may be referring to a perfect past that didn't exist - children in Victorian England were expected to work. |
