🔥☑️✅☑️✅☑️✅🔹New Right Arguments Flashcards
What did John Redwood Conservative MP 1993 say?
‘The natural state should be the two adult family caring for their children’
What did Charles Murray a new right sociologist state about the family in 1994?
‘The traditional monogamous marriage with children is in reality, on average, in the long run, the most satisfying way to live a humans life’
Name 4 problems that the new right identify In society?
- higher divorce rates (single parenthood)
- tolerance of homosexuality
- welfare state (benefits)
- greater independence of children (crime)
What does Melanie Phillips believe about parenting?
‘Flight from parenting’
Parenting is in decline because government policy has given children more rights and power. This causes a ‘flight from parenting’ creating more child sexual promiscuity, juvenile delinquency and underachievement at school
Name 3 arguments to support Melanie Phillips views on the family
1) Cocket and Tripps 1995
2) Murdock
3) Steel and Kidd
What did Cocket and Trip argue?
Cocket and Tripps study Exeter 1995, children from SPF are more likely to underachieve at school, higher rates of divorce and suicide and increased criminal convictions
What did Murdock say to support Melanie Phillips?
The ‘nuclear family is universal and needed to survive’ (he studied over 250 society’s)
What did Steel and Kidd claim to support the claims by Charles Murray
The family de-stresses the adult by providing ‘a warm, loving, stable environment’
What does new right sociologists Brigette and Berger state about the family?
Argue that the nuclear family represents the best environment in which a child’s individuality can develop
How does Jon Bernandes criticise Brigette and Bergers view of the family?
He suggests that the New right view of the family paints an over simplistic and romantic picture of family life ignoring ‘anger,resentment and inequality’.
Name a statistic which supports a Criticism of the nuclear family
NSPCC discovered that in 2016 58,000 Holstein were identified as needing protection from abuse in the UK
What does Charles Murray argue about single parent families?
Calls them the ‘Jeremy Kyle generation’, new rabble, spongers off the state and the underclass. Links hooliganism, drug abuse and educational failure to sickle parent families
What does Saunders (2000) argue about the family? What is this supported by?
The Government ‘favour married parenthood over other choices of raising children’
Supported by David Cameron’s policy (2008) who recommended to force people to do voluntary work in order to deserve benefits
What do Marsland and Saunders (New right sociologists) argue about single parent families?
Single parent families create a major part of the underclass which encourages children to be ‘anti-authority, idle and anti-social’
How does postmodernist Judith Stacey criticise the new right view on single parenthood
Says that in postmodern society there is an accepted range of successful family types including reconstituted and single parent
What does Cashmore (1985) argue about SPF to criticise the new right? (2)
- It is safer for a child to live in a lone parent family instead of living with one caring and one uncaring parent
- 90% beaded by single women which gives them greater independence
How does Dennis and Erdos support the new right view on SPF?
Children without families are more likely to indulge in antisocial behaviour (1992)
What do the new right believe about gender roles?
That man and women should have different gender roles, married mother and say her where the wife stays at home with children and father is a breadwinner
What did Mirlees-Black and Byron (1999) find?
Women were more likely to suffer domestic violence than men -70% of reported domestic violence is violence by men against their female partners
What does Nazroo’s research indicate about domestic violence?
That women often live on fear of men’s potential domestic violence or threats whilst husbands rarely feel frightened by their wives ::traditional gender roles aren’t ideal
Name 1 example of how the new right influence the government
The CSA makes absent fathers pay for their children rather than relying on the state
What do Mcgalahan and Booth suggest about SPF to support new right?
1991- harmed as have lower earnings and are more likely to live in poverty, become low earners and drug abusers
Name the statistic from the economic in 1996
The 1996 economic and social research found that most unmarried mothers were in a regular relationship with the father of their child. Of those who weren’t only 10% were living in social houses
