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6. How does the New Right want to reduce teen pregnancies?

  • Denying council houses to teen mums
  • Introduce weekly visits to schools from a family planning nurse (providing contraception)
  • Increase the legal age at which it is okay to have sex

7. Who thinks that cutting welfare benefits will solve issues such as lone-parent households and crime rates.

  • Feminists
  • The New Right
  • Functionalists

8. Danzelot:

  • Policy is a form of state power over society and professionals use their knowledge to control the family
  • Policy is a form of support from the state which helps the family carry out their roles properly
  • Policy favors capitalist society

9. What happened after the war that made women stop working and therefore become dependent on their husbands?

  • Nurseries closed
  • It became socially unacceptable for women to work
  • Women's pay got reduced by 75%

10. The introduction of health, education and housing policies led to a welfare state in which people are dependent.

  • Leonard
  • Fletcher
  • Danzelot

11. Danzelot

  • rejects the march of progress view
  • agrees with the march of progress view
  • concurs wholeheartedly with the march of progress view

12. Who thinks that state intervention can improve family life?

  • New Labour
  • New Right
  • Marxist

13. Who disapproves of redistributing income through taxation and benefits?

  • New Right
  • New Labour

14. 'Cereal packet norm' - nuclear family is the kind you'd get on a cereal packet

  • Edmund Leach
  • Diana Leonard
  • Hilary Land

15. Social policies assume the nuclear family is the ideal, where the woman is the homemaker

  • Hilary Land
  • Edmund Leach
  • Diana Leonard

16. Which of these is not a criticism of The New Right?

  • Cutting benefits will put poor people in greater poverty.
  • Convincing teen mother to get married will put them in greater risk of poverty due to the cost of marriage
  • Assumes the patriarchal nuclear family is natural and not socially constructed
  • Feminists say it's an attempt to return to patriarchal families with womens oppression

17. Functionalist view on society:

  • Society is build on harmony and consensus (shared beliefs)
  • Society is built on matriarchy and not patriarchy
  • Society is built on lies and deception from the state