Sociology revision - New Right views
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- NEW RIGHT
- CHILDHOOD
- Neil Postman (1982) sees childhood as under threat from television
- Phillips (1997) complains that the period of childhood has been shortened - no longer lasting up to age 13-14
- Successful child-rearing requires two parents of the opposite sex
- Suggests that primary socialisation is the key to a happy childhood
- Pugh (2002) suggests that parental spending on children is consumption as compensation
- Evan and Chandler (2006) found that many parents believed the world had become a much riskier place for their children
- FAMILY STRUCTURE AND ROLES
- Patricia Morgan argues that gay families are unnatural because children can only be the outcome of a loving sexual union of a man and woman
- The New Right claims that the contraceptive pill encourages sexual freedom and promiscuity
- The New Right sees the nuclear family as under threat and in decline
- Emphasises the importance of the nuclear family in society
- New Right thinkers see the emergence of feminism as a sustained attack on traditional family values
- SOCIAL POLICY
- The New Right criticises the Coalition's family policy, particularly its failure to deal with family breakdowns
- New Right views on the family often reflect and transmit a dominant familial ideology
- Butler (2010) argues that strong and durable families are important to the stability of society
- New Right sociologists dislike the welfare system as they argue it relieves families of responsibility
- Bradshaw (2013) claims that cuts in public spending have had a large impact on vulnerable families, resulting in a rise in child poverty
- Morgan (2007) argues that the Labour government's family policy undermined both marriage and the traditional family
- CHILDHOOD
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