Famlies and social policy
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- Topic 7- Families and social policies
- A comparative view of family policy
- Abolishing the family
- The government of the newly formed soviet union sought to destroy the old pre-revolutionary patriarchal family structure
- China's one child policy
- In china, the government's population control policy has discouraged couples from having more than one child.
- Nazi family policy
- In Nazi Germany 1930' the state pursued a twofold policy
- On one hand, it encouraged the healthy and 'racially pure' to breed a 'master race'
- On the other hand, the state sterilised 375,000 disabled people that it deemed unfit to breed on grounds of physical malformation, mental retardation, epilepsy, deafness and blindness
- In Nazi Germany 1930' the state pursued a twofold policy
- Abolishing the family
- Perspectives on the family and social policy
- Functionalism
- See society as built on harmony and consensus and free from major conflicts
- See the state as acting in the interest of society as a whole and its social policy as being for the good of all
- Ronald fletcher(1966) argues that the introduction of health, education and housing policies has led to the development of a welfare state that supports the family in performing its functions more effectively
- For example, The NHS service means that with the help of doctors, nurses, medicines ect, the family is able to take better care of its members when sick
- The New right
- They see the traditional nuclear family as self-reliant and capable of looking after its members
- In their view, social policies should avoid undermining this natural, self-reliant family
- Argue that the government weaken the family's self-reliance by providing generous welfare benefits
- They see the traditional nuclear family as self-reliant and capable of looking after its members
- The new labour
- The New Labour favours strengthening the institution of marriage and regards a family headed by a married couple as the best way to bring up children
- Feminism
- Feminists take a conflict view.
- They argue that all social institutions, including the state and its policies, help to maintain women's subordinate position and unequal gender division of labour in the family
- Feminists such as Hilary land(1978) argue that the social policies assume that the ideal family is the patriarchal nuclear family
- Feminists take a conflict view.
- Marxism
- Marxists see the society as based on class conflict
- Capitalist society contains two classes- Capitalists and workers
- The dominant capitalist class owns the means of production, such as factories, machinery and raw materials
- The working class own nothing but its labour power
- Donzelot: The policing of families
- Like Marxists and Feminists, Jacques Donzelot (1977) sees policy as a form of state power over families
- Functionalism
- A comparative view of family policy
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