//Families and Social Policy FLASHCARDS TO MAKE

Question 1

What was China’s one child policy?

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Question 2

How does Communist Romania control family life?

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Question 3

What was the Nazi family policy?

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Question 4

How do Democratic societies control family life?

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Question 5

How do functionalists see society?

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Question 6

How do functionalists view the role of policies in relation to the family?

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Question 7

What are the two main criticisms of the functionalist view of social policy in relation to the family?

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Question 8

What is meant by surveillance?

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Question 9

What is meant by the policing of families?

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Question 10

In what way does Donzelot’s view of the effect of policy on family life differ from the
functionalists’ view?

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Question 11

Describe the roles of the adults in the New Right view of the ‘traditional’ nuclear family.
How does their view compare to the functionalists’?

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Question 12

Give three examples of policies that the New Right see as threatening the conventional family
and producing social problems.

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Question 13

Explain what is meant by the idea that welfare benefits are ‘perverse incentives’.

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Question 14

Give two examples of ways in which benefits may act as ‘perverse incentives’.

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Question 15

Explain one way in which taxes might be used to encourage the traditional nuclear family.

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Question 16

How do the New Right and functionalism differ in their views of the impact of welfare
policies on family life?

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Question 17

Give four criticisms of the New Right view.

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Question 18

How has the feminist view of social policy been criticised? Give examples of some policies that
illustrate the criticism.

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Question 19

Define the two types of gender regime identified by Drew:

a. Individualistic

b. Familistic

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Question 20

Give one example of a country with an individualistic gender regime and one example of a country with a familistic gender regime.

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Question 21

Explain how feminists show that policy creates a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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Question 22

How do tax and benefits maintain the patriarchal family?

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Question 23

How does childcare maintain the patriarchal family?

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Question 24

How does care for the sick and elderly maintain the patriarchal family?

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