Social Policys Flashcards
Functionalism
Social policies help family perform their functions more efficiently
New right
State should play minimum role in peoples lives
Some social policies damage nuclear family promoting deviance family types and lifestyles
Marxism
Policies provide ideological legitimisation for capitalism
Liberal feminism
Social policies has helped lead to greater gender equality
Radical feminism
Policy is not enough to fix gender equality
1980 -90 Conservative Social policies
1984 divorce act allowed couples to divorce within one year of marriage
1988 benefit cuts
1993 child support agency
1997–2010 new labour
1998 supporting families document focused on financial support including child benefit
More generous maternity leave and pay and paternity leave
Civil partnership act 2004
2010 coalition
2013 marriage act to legalise gay marriage
Legal aid budget cut
Married couples tax allowance cut buy new Labour
post-modernism
Form of state power over families
Social workers health visitors use their knowledge to control and change families denzlot call is this the policing of families
