social policy - new right and feminist

Question 1

what do new right see the neculer family as ;

Answer 1

new right see the nuclear family as conventional and the traditional outlook on society. Overall new right beleive in traadtion and so the hetrosexual couple with children is what is defined as nuclear in the view of new right. They see family diversity and mainly lone parent a producing social problems

Question 2

murray on lone parent familes;

Answer 2

welfare dependency is argued by murray who states that poices being generous in payouts undermines the purpose of nuclear families. He states that it causes men to not take responsibility
Encourages teen pregnancy

Question 3

new right view on social policy; divorce, cohibiation

Answer 3

threat on nuclear family comes from social polices itself. The changes undermine the nuclear family; almond stated that laws making it easier to divorce reject marriage as a lifelong commitment and increase in cohabitation make marriages an “illusion” introduction to civil partnership communicates that hetrosexual couples are no longer dormant and puts hemosexual as the centere.

Question 4

new right solution

Answer 4

Solution is to cut off welfare benefits and stop it being so generous. This would have several benefits and would cause men to take responsibility on their children and encourage less teen pregnancies. The belief new right hold strongly is that the less governme

Question 5

Feminist -

how does the tax policy support patriarchal family

Answer 5

may assume that the husbands are the main wage earners and their wives are their financial dependents
makes it harder for women to have social security since its expected husbands will provide

Question 6

feminist -

how does childcare support patriarchal family

Answer 6

while the government pays for some of the childcare costs for couples to both work it does not meet enough for parents to work full time unless they pay for additional costs. Likewise policies around school holidays make it harder for especially mothers to work full time unless they can afford extra childcare.

Question 7

evaluation for feminist

Answer 7

not all policies are directed at maintaining patriarchy. For example equal pay and sex discrimination laws, the right of lesbians to marry, benefits of lone parents, refuges for women escaping domestic violence and equal rights to divorce could all be said to challenge the patriarchal family.

Question 8

what are gender regimes?

Answer 8

The configuration of gender relations in a particular setting

Question 9

Familistic Gender Regime: w

Answer 9

here policies are based on a traditional gender division of male breadwinner and female housewife and carer

Question 10

individualistic geder regime

Answer 10

where policies are based on the belief that wives and husbands should be treated the same. Wives are not seen to be financially dependant on their husband so each partner has separate entitlement to state benefits