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Family&Households: Topic 7- Families and social policy Flashcards

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Comparative view

What are the 4 comparative views of family policy?

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  • China’s one child policy
  • Nazi family policy
  • Communist Romania
  • Democratic societies
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Comparative view

Explain China’s one child policy.

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Aimed to discourage couples having more than one child. Couples how complied get extra benefits:
* Free child healthcare
* Higher tax allowance
Couples who break policy:
* Repay allowance and pay fine
* Women pressured to get steralised

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Comparative view

Explain the nazi family policy.

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  • Two-fold policy encourages health and ‘racially pure’ to breed a master race
  • Keep women with children, in kitchen and church
  • The state compulsorily steralised 375000 disabled people- they’re unfit to breed
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Comparative view

Explain communist Romania- 1980s.

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  • Drive up birth rate which was falling due to living standards
  • Restricted contraception/abortion
  • Lowered legal age of marriage to 15
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Comparative view

Explain democratic societies.

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  • In Britain family is a private shpere of life where the government wont intervene
  • Sociologists argue the states social policies play a role into shaping family life.
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Perspective on families and social policy

What is the functionalist perspective on families and social policy?

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  • They think the state is helping society
  • The state policies are good for all
  • Policies help families perform their functions
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Perspective on families and social policy

What is a criticism of the functionalist view?

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  • Assumes all family members equally from social policy- maternity leave makes women poorer
  • Assumers theres a MOP view: can reverse. E.g. closing fire stations
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Perspective on families and social policy

What does Donzelot argue about policing the family?

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  • Has a conflict view- sees policy as control over families
  • Social workers, health visitors, doctors use their knowledge to control families
  • Poor familiees are seen as the problem and cause crimes- they’re targeted for improvement
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Perspective on families and social policy

What is a criticms of Donzelots arguement?

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Marx and fems say Donzelot is failing to identity clearly who benefits from policies of surveillance
* Benefits capitalists and men

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Perspective on families and social policy

What is the new right argument for policies?

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They belive polices leads to family diversity and undermines the nuclear family which they dont like

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Perspective on families and social policy

What policies have led to the breakdown of the nuclear family?

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  • 2014- same sex marriage legalised
  • 1969 Divorce reform act- cheaper and less complicated to get a divorce
  • 1967 abortion act- legal through NHS
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Perspective on families and social policy

What is the new rights argument on lone parents, welfare and dependency culture?

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  • Welfare is too generous giving cash and housing to single teen mothers
  • Creates dysfunctional families
  • If fathers see state will help they will abonded responsibilty
  • Encourages dependency culture
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Perspective on families and social policy

What is the new rights solution for lone parents, welfare and dependency culture?

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  • Cut welfare and make it tighter on who can recieve it
  • Cutting welfare alows for tax to be reduced
  • Deny council housing to unmarried teens
  • Make absent fathers financially responsible
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Perspective on families and social policy

What are some criticism of the new rights argument?

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  • Fem- a return to trad families opresses women
  • Wrongly assumes patriachal family is natural
  • Cutting welfare may make poor people poorer
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Perspective on families and social policy

What policy does the conservative government implement that went along with the new right argument?

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They banned the promotion of homosexuality, defining divorce as a social problem
* Wanted to stabilise society
* More nuclear families
* Stick to traditional norms

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Perspective on families and social policy

What policy does the conservative government implement that goes against the new right argument?

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  • Set up child support agency to enforce payments
  • Made sure illegitimate children had the same rights as children w/ married parents
  • Introduced measures to make divorce easier
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Perspective on families and social policy

What policies did the new labour government implement?

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They argue the nuclear family is the bedrock of society but reject one earner
* Outlawing discrimination on grouds of sexuality
* Civil partnership for same sex couples
* Gave unmarried couple the same rights to adopt as married couples

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Perspective on families and social policy

What view do femininsts have on families and policies?

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Conflict view- sees it as patriachal and opressing women

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Perspective on families and social policy

What policies support the patriachal family according to femininsts?

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  • Tax benefit policies
  • Childcare
  • Care for sick and elderly
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Perspective on families and social policy

How does tax benefit policies support patriachy?

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  • Assumes males are breadwinner
  • Can be impossible for women to claim social security on their own
  • Reinforces women are dependent on their husbands
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Perspective on families and social policy

How does childcare support patriachy?

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Policies governing school timetable and holidays make it hard for parents to work full time

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Perspective on families and social policy

How does care for sick and elderly support patriachy?

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Government policies assume family will provid this care
* Middle-aged women usually do the caring which prevents them from working full time

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Perspective on families and social policy

What is the evaluation of the feminist view?

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Not all policies help patriachy:
* Equal pay
* Sex discriminatino laws
* Lone parent benefits

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Perspective on families and social policy

What do marxists argue about social policies?

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Policy is made by powerful and rich
* E.g. NHS keeps workers fit enough to continue wokring
* It prevents a revolution. E.g. welfare state made so that W/C doesnt rise up and capitalism

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Perspective on families and social policy

What are the 2 gender regimes Drew notes follows different types of family poicies?

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How gender regimes can either encourage or discourage gender equality
* Family gender regimes: Where policies are based on a traditional gender division between male breadwinner and female housewife
* Individualistic gender regimes: Policies based on the belief that husbands and wives should be treated the same

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