New Right

Question 1

What is the new right ?

Answer 1

The new right is a theoretical framework for political actions regarding right wing policies which has influenced

• labour
• THATCHER
• EDUCATIONAL REFORM ACT 1998

Question 2

What are the New right concerned with ?

Answer 2

They are concerned with the moral breakdown of society due to the lack of traditional moroals and value consensus
- Concerened with individualism and a minimal state eg criticise nanny state as t

Question 2

What are the New right concerned with ?

Answer 2

They are concerned with the moral breakdown of society due to the lack of traditional morals and value consensus
- Concerned with individualism and a minimal state eg criticise nanny state as this creates a dependency culture

Question 3

What is meant by the underclass ?

Answer 3

The underclass is ..

Question 4

How are new right views represented in the idea of fatherless families and Murrays ideas on the under class ?

Answer 4

• Underclass are dependent on the state it represnts that moral breakdown in society how people have become lazy and used to a nanny state also known as an enabling state
• Fatherless families also represents a moral breakdown and a breakdown in traditions because it shows the carelessness of women having babies with men and expecting the state to provide also known as the nanny state

Question 5

What bother concepts can be used when discussing the new right ? Link to the topic of education

Answer 5

• Individual responsibility
• Increases competition
  this can be reinforced through Chubb and moes study and ideas on marketisation and the privatisation which enables schools to compete for parents

Question 6

What does Murray argue about the underclass ? what are some of his views.

Answer 6

• Favour’s marriage specifically for young men as this enable them to settle down and focus
• ## Underclass known as the most margianlised , unsocialised and often violent - produce criminals

Question 7

What are some concepts of Dennis and Erodos ?

Answer 7

• ## Children from lone parent households are more likely to be addmitted into hospital from injusries

Question 8

What is the new right also known as ?

Answer 8

pOLITICAL FUNCTIONALISM -

Question 9

What is a difference between the New right and functionalism ?

Answer 9

• Functionalism describes how things are where as the new right identify what they want to do through policies and actions

Question 10

What are some evaluations of the new right ?

Answer 10

Funct - agree with new right arguing that there needs to be a value consensus and traditional values are neccessery in society because it maintains social order - Biology with roles

• Marx - New right legitimises class inequality because they criticise the re- distribution of wealth thus legitimising class inequality. see the disprivilaged the working class and under class as the cause for all negatives in socitey ignoring wider issues
• Feminism- Criticises new right suggesting that they reinforce patriarchy and oppression ie in favour of biological roles such as expressive and iinstrumental- social constructed roles , refueses to see how times have chnaged- regressive
• Social action - ?
• Postmodern - completely move away from this regressive idea