Donzelot - social policy
- Created by: kandy sisya
- Created on: 28-04-13 19:12
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- Donzelot - policing families
- Sees policy as a form of state power over families
- Argues that social workers, health visitors and doctors use their knowledge to control and change poorer families
- e.g. state may seek to control and regulate family life by imposing compulsory parenting orders through courts
- parents of young offenders, truants or badly behaved children - forced to attend parenting classes to learn the 'correct' way to bring up children
- e.g. state may seek to control and regulate family life by imposing compulsory parenting orders through courts
- EVALUATION
- MARXISTS + FEMINISTS - criticise for failing to identify who benefits from such policies of surveillance
- MARXIST - social policies generally operate in the interests of the capitalist class
- FEMINIST - men are the main beneficiaries
- MARXISTS + FEMINISTS - criticise for failing to identify who benefits from such policies of surveillance
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