Theoretical Approaches To Poverty

Question 1

What are all the theoretical approaches to welfarel

Answer 1

Marxist,feminist and new right

Question 2

What is welfare

Answer 2

Government spending to make sure the poorest people in society meet basic needs

Question 3

What is the Marxist view on welfare

Answer 3

Marxists believe the welfare state is mainly a way of buying off class protest

Question 4

What do Marxists believe the government keep the labour force healthy and efficient

Answer 4

It creates a “caring face of capitalism”

Question 5

Why do Marxists believe the bourgeoise want to keep the workforce healthy

Answer 5

To be able to continue exploiting them in the workplace

Question 6

Why exactly does the government believe is a threat to social order and political stability

Answer 6

Extreme I equality,ill health and poverty

Question 7

What is the social democratic view on the governments responsibility on welfare

Answer 7

The government should be responsible for social welfare and for action to eliminate problems that affect the most vulnerable and socially excluded in society

Question 8

What do social democrats believe threatens the stability of society

Answer 8

Social inequality

Question 9

What do social democrats believe wealth and income should be redistributed through

Answer 9

Taxation

Question 10

What do social democrats believe should happen the more you earn

Answer 10

You must pay more (through taxes)

Question 11

What type of support do social democrats believe you should recieve

Answer 11

Womb to the tomb support to reduce social inequality and tackle poverty

Question 12

Why does social democrats believe benefits should be available to all

Answer 12

Because means tested benefits create a stigma on those claiming them

Question 13

Hat do social democrats believe will happen if there is a stigma around benefits

Answer 13

People who are entitled to benefits will not claim them

Question 14

What do social democrats believe means testing will do to people job wise

Answer 14

It will out people off from getting low paid jobs as if they are means tested and they Sheva job they will most likely be rejected and being on benefits is higher paying than an average low paying job

Question 15

What do social democrats believe promotes a cohesive and less divided society

Answer 15

Greater equality in healthcare,education,and employement

Question 16

When did the new right approach develop

Answer 16

During the conservative government between 1979 and 1997

Question 17

What was the new rights aim to do the welfare state

Answer 17

Roll it back and make more people independent

Question 18

What is another name for the new right approach of making people more independent benefits-wise

Answer 18

The market liberal approach

Question 19

Why is it called the market liberal approach

Answer 19

Because it believes that individuals should have freedom to choose welfare provision for themselves

Question 20

According to the new right approach what is the generosity of the nanny state seen as doing

Answer 20

Undermining personal responsibility and peoples willingness to work and support themselves

Question 21

What do Charles Murray (1989) and Marsland (1989) argue the welfare state has created

Answer 21

A dependancy culture and a work shy underclass

Question 22

What is the definition of a work shy underclass

Answer 22

A social group right at the bottom of the social hierarchy ,whose members are in some way different from the rest of society

They avoid work and rely on benefits

Question 23

What is a perverse incentive

Answer 23

A perverse incentive is when people use welfare to their advantage e.g. teenagers will purposely get pregnant to access free housing. And people will not have jobs to access benefits.

Question 24

What does the new right argue that the generosity of the state encourages

Answer 24

Lone parenthood as women now realise they will be financially supported by the state

Question 25

What do new right theorists argue will improve of welfare is not provided by the state

Answer 25

Welfare services will be a better quality when they are not provided by the state,for instance if they are provided by charities or voluntary organisations e.g. cancer care

Question 26

Why does new right believe taxation should be kept to a minimum

Answer 26

They should not be wasted on providing welfare benefits and free healthcare to those unable to support themselves

Question 27

Why does new right believe state benefits should be restricted to the very poor and those unable to work through sickness or disability

Answer 27

The rest of the population should provide their own welfare such as private medicine and private pension plans