A New Right Perspective on the Family Flashcards
What do The New Right believe about the nuclear family?
It is the best type for socialising children into values like discipline, respect, civility and responsibility.
What is familial ideology?
The values and norms that instruct us on how ‘ideal’ family life should be lived and what the family should look like.
Why do the New Right believe in a Golden Age?
Family values were much stronger:
- Husbands and wives were more committed
- Children were raised to be respectful and hardworking
What do the New Right believe the decline in the nuclear family causes?
Wider moral decay in society as evidenced by crime, anti-social behaviour and welfare dependency.
What do the New Right believe is causing the beginning of a sustained attack on the nuclear family?
The emergence of feminism and government social policies in the 60s and early 70s.
What was the report called that the New Right think tank produced?
‘Breakdown Britain’ in 2006
What did the New Right blame family breakdown on in their report?
~Dissolution - divorce was too easy to obtain
~Dysfunction - parents not socialising kids properly
~Dadlessness
What is dissolution?
The act of formally ending something.
What is family dysfunction?
Where the parents are not socialising their kids in the right and healthy way.
What is dadlessness?
When a child is without the benefit of their dad living with them.
What is the underclass?
A social group that is workshy, depends on benefits, lacks motivation to work and socialises its children into deviant social behaviour and values.
