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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?
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