Key Concepts
- Created by: CourtneyBunker
- Created on: 16-11-18 12:45
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- Key Concepts
- Power
- One group has more power over another group
- According to diagram in Frost - The State has the most power and Children have the least
- Foucault
- Directly linked to influence
- The Nanny State
- State that could be considered to be interfering in peoples lives and perhaps over protective
- Linked directly to New Right
- Policies introduced and used could disadvantage failing families
- Post-Modernity
- Condition or state that has moved from modernity to post-modernity
- Movement in the late 80s
- Focused on the idea of change
- Modernity to Post-Modernity
- Modernity - a more certain time and set roles with fixed identities
- Post-Modernity - an more uncertain time, instability and upheaval - Ziggy Bowman (Liquidity)
- Life Chances
- Potential to acheive
- Socially desirable
- Being poor or social class can lead to failing life chances
- Opportunities to achieve
- Weber
- Social Exclusion
- Individuals feel isolation
- Don't get access to support they require
- The denial of citizenship and obstacle of participation
- Policies of ostarity the value of benefits have been reduced and level of wages have been reduced - support services have been stripped back - being part of the community has become harder
- Burn
- Relative Poverty
- Condition in which people with minimum income needed to maintain the basic standard of living
- Broken Britain
- Teenage pregnancy, gang crime, child neglect, poor education system
- Widespread state of social decay
- Polarisation
- Segregation of groups within society
- Increasing inequality between groups
- Economic inequality has been caused by Neo-Liberalism policies
- Welfare State
- Collection of policies that establish state provision of services
- Gini Co-Efficient
- Used to measure the inequality within a given society
- UK's score is 0.34
- De-Industrialisation
- Had an effect on the job market and shift patterns
- More families ended up on beenfits such as Family Aid
- Regulation
- Set of rules maintained by authority - the state
- Neo-Liberlaism
- Pro-capitalist economic theory
- competition is a defining characteristic of society
- Garrett
- Discourse
- Refers to the ways in which we think and speak about society
- Structures and orders language and in fact society
- Gives meaning to certain and specific situations
- Foucault
- Discourse
- All about the individual
- Discourse
- Refers to the ways in which we think and speak about society
- Structures and orders language and in fact society
- Gives meaning to certain and specific situations
- Foucault
- Family
- A group of persons linked together by blood, marriage or adoption
- Failing family
- A family that does not meet the standard of normal standard
- Guardian Handouts
- Familiy in poverty - economically poor
- Famiily Practices
- Fiona Williams
- Families are what families do
- Fiona Williams
- Authoritatrian State
- The way in which the state exerts its authority- typically quite conservative (no diversity)
- Sanctions on benefits
- Surveillance
- Being watched and considered - benefits and Every Child Matters
- Rhetoric
- Persausive language
- Neo-Conservatism
- Opposite of Neo-Liberalism
- Focuses on morals
- Perverse Incentives
- Incentives that will stop what we don't want to happen
- Communitarianism
- Political ideas that brought family and community back into the spotlight
- Putnam
- Becomes important during New Labour
- policies to mak family life easier
- Power
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