For capitalism to survive, the family must pass on the ideology when socialising children that society is fair and that if they conform and work hard they will achieve social mobility
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Card 7
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The family is an escape for workers who can enjoy a personal life away from the oppression and exploitation of work. The family offers them a release and a measure of control
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Card 8
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Argues that families can exercise control over families in other ways too. He explored this through the concept of surveillance
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Card 9
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Applied the concept of surveillance to the family and motherhood. Pressure to conform to social norms relating to family life means mothers, through guilts and self criticism, exercise surveillance ivre themselves to live up to their own self-imposed pare
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Card 10
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Policies based on the cereal packet family are harmful because it’s a patriarchal stereotype that exposes women in families tot the triple burden, it’s a harmful model as it suggests that other family types are deviant, it fails to recognise how the trad
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Card 11
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Argues that policies are a form of state power over families. Professional carry out surveillance. Poor families are often targeted as they are seen as a ‘problem’ or a target for ‘improvement’
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Card 12
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Argues that the state controls and regulates family life by compulsory parenting orders through courts. Therefore social policy does not support families but is a form of state control
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Card 13
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Argues that the home compares unfavourably with work. At work, women feel valued etc.
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Card 14
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Observe that many women feel a growing dissatisfaction with patriarchal marriage
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Card 15
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Noted that an important change since the 1960s has been the rapid decline in stigma attached to divorce
