Social policy and theoretical views
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- Created on: 13-02-18 15:42
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- social policy
- Divorce reform act (1969)
- Makes it easier for couples to escape unhappy marriages
- Results in more single parent and reconstituted families
- Neither partner had to prove fault lay with their partner
- Maternity/ Paternity pay
- Employees are eligiable if they and their partner are having a child, adopting a child
- Maternity reinforces gender roles
- Employees are eligiable if they and their partner are having a child, adopting a child
- Child support agency
- Supports towards everyday living costs when you are seperated
- This increases the rate of divorce
- Ensures the other parent pays child maintenance
- Theoretical perspectives on family and social policy
- Functionalism
- View sociology as a science, through scientific research they are able to discover problems and solutions in soceity
- See state as serving the needs of soceity
- Policies helps soceity run smoothly
- New right
- Believe the state should have minimal involement in soceity
- Oppose state involvement in family
- Want new policies to restore respomnsibility in the family.
- Marxism
- Soceity is divided by conflict of interest in which capitalist class exploit the labour of the WC
- The state represents the ruling class
- The role of sociologists is to reveal the exploitation that underpins capitalism
- Feminism
- Soceity is based on coflict
- Soceity is based on a patriarchy
- Marxists and radical feminists reject that changes made in law can liberate women
- Functionalism
- Divorce reform act (1969)
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