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What is social policy? |
Refers to the plans and actions of state agencies such as health and social services, the welfare benefits system, schools and other public bodies. |
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What was China's one child policy? |
Aimed to discourage couples from having more than one child. Lead to female and disabled children being abandoned. |
Boys were favourite |
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What was communist Romania's social policy? |
To increase borth rate by banning contraception and abortion. |
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What was Nazi family policy? |
Encourage high birth rate among Aryan master race and sterilise defective people. |
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What are the three perspectives on families and social policy? |
Functionalism, Conflict view and the New Right. |
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What do functionalists believe about the states policies? |
They believe they're good for everyone and help the family perform their functions. |
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Name two policies functionalists think are good for the family? |
The NHS and free schooling. |
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Name two criticisms of functionalism? |
- feminists argue policies benefit men and not women - Marxists argue policies can turn the clock back and reverse progress already made. Eg reduce benefits for the poor. |
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What does Donzelot say about the relationship between the family and state policies? |
He has a conflict view and sees policy as a form of state power and control over families. |
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Donzelot uses Foucault's idea of surveillance of the family, what is it? |
Foucault argues professionals like doctors watch over families and turn them into cases. |
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How does Donzelot see the state as controlling families? |
- Families can be forced to go to parenting classes. |
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Give a criticism of Donzelot's theory? |
Marxists and feminists criticise Donzelot as he fails to identify who benefits from this surveillance of the family. |
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In the new right's view how have state policies undermined the traditional family? |
Almond argues: -divorce laws are too lenient -gay marriage undermined heterosexual marriages dominance -tax laws discriminate against traditional nuclear family as lay more as woman not working. |
Divorce, gay marriage and tax laws. |
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Why are the new right critical of the state providing benefits to lone parents? |
It undermines the nuclear family and encourages dysfunctional families. |
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What do welfare benefits encourage according to the new right? |
-fathers abandoning children -pregnancy as council houses given to teen mothers -risng crime rate among males as they grow up without male role model as generous benefits mean women can live as lone parents. |
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What functions of the family do the new right believe are threatened by current policies? |
-successful socialisation of young. -maintenance of work ethic among men. -encourages dependency culture. |
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What solutions do the new right give? |
-cut welfare benefits -reduce taxation -deny council housing to teens -support traditional families -make families self-reliant |
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Give 4 criticisms of the new right? |
-patriarchal family is not natural and is socially constructed. -feminists don't want a return to the patriarchal family. -cant create more poverty by reducing benefits -they exaggerate amount of benefits given out and most policies do support nuclear family. |
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