Famiies And Households The New Right Persepctive

Question 1

What is the new right perspective of the family

Answer 1

They take a more political rather than sociological approach and view them similarly to functionalists.

Question 2

What does the new right argue about gender roles?

Answer 2

They support the traditional family values and traditional heterosexual nuclear family.

Question 3

What does the new right believe about gender roles?

Answer 3

They believe that the best way to bring up children is to encourage conformity and raise them in a family made from two natural parents with the division of instrumental and expressive gender roles.

Question 4

What does the new right suggest about alternative families?

Answer 4

They oppose changes to the law that would make divorce easier and oppose to step families, an increase in lone parent families, cohabitation as an alternative to marriage and births outside of marriage.

Question 5

What does the new right suggest about state policy?

Answer 5

They believe that the welfare state policies that support relationships outside the nuclear family undermine personal responsibility and create social problems, eg, juvenile crime and anti social behaviour.