Definitions in new right view of the family Flashcards
What is the welfare dependency?
Reliance on state welfare benefits, criticised for creating a lack of a lack of personal responsibility and wokr ethnic
What is the underclass?
A social group characterised by long-term unemployment, dependency on benefits and perceived deviance from social norms (Murray)
What are conservative social policies?
Policies aimed at strengthening traditional family values and reducing state intervention in family life
What is primitive communism?
Ealry societies where resources and responsibilities where shared equally without class division (Engles)
What is exploitation?
Marxist concept of workers being underpaid for their labour while profits go to capitalists
What is alienation?
Workers’ loss of control over their labour and its products, leading to disconnection from work and society
What is commodification?
Turning good, services and even relationships into marketable items
What is inheritance?
Engels argued that family structures emerged to ensure the transfrer of property to heirs
What is a safe haven?
Zaretsky described the family as providing emotional refuge from the alienation of capitalism, though he critiqued its limitations
What is pester power?
Children’s ability to influence parents’ buying decisions through persistent requests
What is the ideological state apparatus?
Althusser’s concept of institutions like family and education perpetuating dominant ideologies
What is policing the family?
Donzelot’s idea of state intervention regulating family life through policies and social workers
What is dominant ideology?
The set of beliefs and values upheld by the ruling class to maintain power
