FAH - T7 - FAMILY AND SOCIAL POLICY - Mindmap in A Level and IB Sociology

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FAH - T7 - FAMILIES AND SOCIAL POLICY
- Comparative view of family policy
  - how do policies affect family life? Direct: marriage, divorce. Indirect: education, work
  - China One Child policy: gov. population control over women - allowed one child. Only children prioritised in education system.
  - Communist Romania: 1980's reduced contraception, divorce difficult to obtain, lowered marriage age. All to increase birth rate - declining since fall in living standard
  - Nazi family policy - racially pure to breed master race. Restricting abortion. Official policy reduced women to home, no working, expressive role
    - state sterilised 375,000 disabled people. Deemed unfit to breed - them murdered in concentration camps
- Perspectives
  - Fletcher: Functionalism
    - policy helps family perform role, better life for members.
    - Fletcher: introduction of health NHS, means families can take care of sick, perform role for society agan
    - assumes all family members benefit equally.
    - assumes MoP view as if policy improves things.
  - Donzelot: policing the family (conflict view)
    - state controls families through policy
      - poor families more likely to be seen as problem - surveyed regularly
    - Foucault: use of surveillance allows families to be controlled by those with knowledge, e.g. Drs, social workers
      - poor families more likely to be seen as problem - surveyed regularly
      - does not show WHO benefits. Marxist - men. Female - women
  - Almond: The New Right
    - favour Nuclear family - brings stability and reliant care for members
      - state policy encourage change and undermine nuclear family.
        laws make divorce easier. - imply nuclear family not dominant Allow gays - sends out message that straight couples aren't superior
        increased rights for cohabiting makes marriage and cohabiting similar - state not prefer marriage
    - Murray: Lone parents, welfare policy, dependency culture
      - providing state welfare undermines nuclear family and encourages deviant family types in society.
        fathers abandon children as state provides
        
        girls become pregnant to get council house
      - state encourages dependency culture. Threatens family functions of providing socialisation of young and mens work ethic
        New Right solution: cut welfare benefits, restrictions on who gets benefits. Reduce taxes gives fathers incentive to work.
    - assume patriarchal family is natural and not constructed
    - no benefits make poor poorer - more dependency culture
    - New right influence on policy
      - Coalition gov 2010-15.
        Hayton: two types of Tory: modernists - accept family diversity. Traditionalists - reject non nuclear families.
        coalition weakened traditionalists - introduction of gay marriage opposes new right
      - Labour 97-2010
        contrast N.R - recognise women work - maternity leave
      - Tory gov 1979-97
        Thatcher: banned homosexual adverts and divorce stigmatised
  - Feminsim
    - conflict view - society = patriarchally dominated
      - Land: policy as SFP:
        many social policies assume ideal family is patriarchal nuclear family - then affects kind of policy governed to fam.life. e.g. assumes marriage - tax incentive to married
      - Policy supporting patriarchal family:
        childcare - expenses means women cannot work - dependent on husbands
        
        child benefit paid to mother - assumes childcare is women responsibility
    - some policy inproves women's rights - e.g. **** in marriage = illegal. Equal pay act

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