Social Policy
- Created by: lw121x
- Created on: 10-05-15 11:00
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- social policy
- Functionalists
- State acting interests of society social policies good for all. Make life better
- Fletcher welfare state supports family performing functions more effectively ie. NHS family taken care of
- Evaluation
- Assume all members benefit feminist believe only benefit men
- Marxists politicians turn policies back ie. cutting benefits
- State acting interests of society social policies good for all. Make life better
- New Right
- existing policies undermine the family, generous welfare state.Stop self reliance ie. housing unmarried
- Murray benefits 'incentives' reward antisocial. Lone parents= boys w/o male role model.
- Evaluation
- Feminists NR justify patriarchy
- wrongly assumes patriarchal nuclear family is natural rather than socially constructed
- cutting benefits = poor poorer
- Feminists NR justify patriarchy
- feminist
- reinforces patriarchal ideas. Tax + benefits assume husbands main wage earners
- = dependence
- Evaluation
- Not all policies maintain patriarchy ie. equal pay
- Diana Leonard maternity leave not fair think women domestic
- reinforces patriarchal ideas. Tax + benefits assume husbands main wage earners
- Marxist
- benefits not benefit all srve capitalism low pension = too old
- don't believe in welfare benefits = happy improvements are just concessions
- Evaluation
- Functionalists not interest ruling class
- Feminist Marx ignore detrimental effect on women
- Functionalists
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