The New Right: lesson 10 Flashcards
1
Q
What do the new right believe in?
A
- traditional family values
- personal responsibility
- reduced state intervention
2
Q
Why are the new right critical of welfare benefits?
A
Creates dependency on state
3
Q
What do they believe social policies has led to?
A
- improper socialisation
- increase drug and alcohol use
- educational underachievement
- rise in deviant and criminal behaviour
4
Q
What does Charles Murray believe?
A
- State should provide minimal support to prevent dependency on state and to encourage traditional family values
- Fathers abandon children to state and take no responsibility
- Underclass created by single parenthood
- Children socialised into accepting this norm
5
Q
What are Functionalist views the New Right share?
A
- Biologically based division of Labour
- Social institutions work to promote social order
- Nuclear family is ideal
- Family is a crucial institution
6
Q
What are criticisms of the New Right?
A
- Feminists: divorce is good as it allows omen to escape unhappy relationships
- Demonization of single parents
- Reducing be if it’s increases deprivation
7
Q
What are policies the New Right don’t like?
A
- Same Sex Couples Act 2013
- Divorce Reform Act 1969
