Topic 7: Families and social policies
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- Created on: 06-05-13 11:34
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- Families and social policy
- Comparative view of family policy
- Abolishing the family
- Russian Revolution 1917
- Destroy the old pre-revolutionary family
- Divorce laws were tightened
- Abortion was made illegal
- Parents were encouraged to have more children
- China's one child policy
- Couples who comply get more benefits
- Couples who break this policy will have to pay a fine
- In Romania they were trying to up the birth rate
- Infertility centres
- Making divorce more difficult
- Restricted contraception and abortions
- Nazi family policy
- Germany 1930s
- Encouraged to breed a 'master race'
- Women were made to stay at home
- Sterilized 375,000 disabled people
- Abolishing the family
- Perspectives on families and social policy
- Functionalism
- Society as built on harmony and without conflict
- FLETCHER
- Different policies have lead to the development of the welfare state
- Helps families to perform their functions better
- Different policies have lead to the development of the welfare state
- Ciricisms
- Assumes all members benefit from social policies
- Assumes 'MOP' view
- New Right
- They see the nuclear family the best
- MURRAY
- Benefits offer 'perverse insentives'
- Policies can encourage a dependency culture
- Criticisms
- Feminists: Attempt to justify a patriarchal society
- Wrongly assumes that the nuclear family is 'natural'
- Cutting benefits = more poverty
- New Labour
- Conservative party
- Changed adoption laws
- Strengthening marriage& cutting benefits
- Certain policies can improve life for some families
- Conservative party
- Feminists
- Society is patrirachal
- Social institutions maintain womens subordinate position
- LAND
- Assume the ideal family is nuclear
- Marxism
- Society is based on class conflict
- We live in a capitalist society
- Social policies do not benefit members equlay
- MOP
- DONZELOT: policing of families
- Polices are like state power over families
- Rejects the MOP view
- Polices are like state power over families
- Criticisms
- Marxist & Feminists
- Functionalism
- Comparative view of family policy
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