Families And Social Policy Flashcards

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Name a cross cultural plan which can be used a comparative view in china

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china has a one child policy

  1. supervised by workforce- women have to ask to get pregnant
  2. often waiting list/ quota
  3. couples who comply get extra benefits + education/ housing priority
  4. couples who break an agreement have to pay a fine
  5. women are encourraged to have sterilisation after 1 child
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name a cross cultural plan which can be used as a comparative method in Romania

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  1. policies to drive up the birth rate- restricted contraception, abortion, set up fertility clinics, made divorce difficult lowered marriage to 15
  2. childless couples pay more tax
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name a cross cultural plan which can be used as a comparative method in Nazi policy

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  1. 1930s - encourage ‘pure breed’ race eg restricting abortion
  2. policies kept women out of work
  3. sterilised 375 thousand disabled people
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what is the functionalist view on social policy

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consensus view
state acts in interest of social policy and helps to make life better
fletcher: education and housing policies since industrial revolution has led to welfare state which supports functions such as NHS

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what are the criticism of functionalist view

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  1. feminists: policies often benefit men

2. assumes a march of progress, marxists argue policies can reverse progress eg cutting benefits

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what did Donzelot say about the conflict view for family policies

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policies a form a state control

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what did Condry say about the conflict view of family polices

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parenting orders- correct way to bring up children

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what is the criticisms for the conflict view of family policies

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  • fails to clearly identity who benefit from these policies
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what is the new right view for family policies

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state policies have undermined nuclear family

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what was Almonds new right view for social policies

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  1. laws make divorce easier
  2. civil partnerships
  3. tax laws discriminate against conventional families
  4. increased rights for cohabitating couples send out signal state does not see marriage as social
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what was Murray new right view for social policies

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  • generous welfare benefits undermines conventical families and encourages deviant family types
  • also talks about ‘ perverse incentive’
  • social policies encourage ‘dependency culture’
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what does ‘ perverse incentive’ mean

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fathers abandon children, council housing encourages teens to get pregnant, boys grow up without role models

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what are new right solutions for family policies

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  1. cuts in welfare spending and restrictions on who is eligible
  2. taxes could be reduced, more incentive to work
  3. deny council houses to pregnant teens
  4. taxes that favour married couples
  5. state interferes with families, less reliance on state
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what is the evaluation for new right perspectives on crime

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  1. feminists excuse to return to patriarchal family
  2. wrongly assumes nuclear family is ‘natural’
  3. drive poor families deeper into poverty
  4. ignores policies that support nuclear families
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what influence do conservative parties 1970s have on social policies

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+ conservative party reflected new right view in 1970s - banned promotion of homosexuality, set up child support agency
- included opposing policies- divorce easier and illegitimate children same rights

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what influence do new labour 1997 have on social policies

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+similarities with conservative, families should be headed by married, heterosexual couples
- silva and smart reject the view that family should have just one earner policies include:
1. longer maternity leave
welfare, taxation and minimum wage policies aim to take children out of poverty

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what influence does coalition 2010 have on social policies

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  • conservative divided with when hayton calls:
    1. modernists: recognise families are diverse + reflect this in policies
    2. traditionists: reject diversity as morally wrong
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what else do coalition 2010 say

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  • difficult to maintain a consistent policy line- weakened by having to share power with lib dems
  • some argue failed to introduce policies that promote conventional family. in fact nuclear families lose out eg tax benefits
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how do feminists view social policy

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  • policies are based on ‘normal’ families
  • land: policies assume the ideal family is patriarchal
  • this reinforces this particular family types and creates a self fulfilling prophecy
  • makes it more difficult to live in other family types
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what policies support patriarchal families

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  1. tax and benefits: assume men will be earners
  2. childcare: not enough for full timers. school holidays create problems
  3. care for sick/ elderly: prevents women working full time
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what did lenard say about policies supporting patriarchal families

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even policies to support women reinforce the patriarchal family eg

  1. maternity leave- assumption that women look after children, become more economically dependent on partner
  2. child benefit is paid to the mother
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evaluation of feminists view on social policy

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  1. ignores policies like equal pay, civil partnerships, women’s refuges
  2. rape within a marriage is a criminal offense
  3. there policies can be said to improve the position of women
23
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what are gender regimes

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how social policies in different countries can either encourage/ discourage gender equality
* drew two types of gender regimes

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what are the two types of gender regimes

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  1. famalistic gender regimes: policies based on traditional gender roles such as Greece who have little childcare benefits
  2. individualistic gender regimes: polices based on , equality, such as Sweden who have many equal opportunity policies
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what is argues about state vs market

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  • Drew argues that EU countries are moving towards individualistic regimes
  • could bring a move from patriarchal families
  • however some policies do not come cheap such as child care. conflict over who should pay for them. for this reason naïve to assume a march of progress