New right theory 3F

Question 1

what goverment was influenced by the new right theory ?

Answer 1

1980/90s concervative government

Question 2

what did the new right believe in

Answer 2

self help and self reliance
people should depend on the state as little as possible

Question 3

what issues where the new right concerned about ?

Answer 3

• rising divorce
• more single parent families
• more children born to unwed parents
• more cohabitation

Question 4

why did the NR say these changes had occured

Answer 4

• breakdown of traditional values
• over-generous benefits to single mothers enabling fathers to neglect responsibilites
• feminisim devaluing marrige,domesticity encouraging women to seek fufilment outside of the home
• changes in social attitudes towards sex putside of marrige

Question 5

what were the NR solutions to these problems

Answer 5

• return to traditional family values (lifelong marrige, responsible parenthood)
• redirecting welfare benefits to support and maintain two-parent families, peanilising those who fail to live up to these ideals

Question 6

what did charles murray believe ?

Answer 6

• growing ‘underclass’ in society - made up of ppl dependent on benefits (majority single mothers)
• admires the new victorians (upper middle class) as, in his view, they have: family responsibility, fidelity, loyalty and discipline
• broken families, illegitimacy and single parenthood is linked with crime, drug abuse, unemployment and educational underachievement

Question 7

Dennis and Erdos ‘families without fatherhood’
findings

Answer 7

• increasing numbers of children are being raised by single mothers
• tend to have poorer health and lower educational achievement than children in nuclear families
• boys grow up without the expectation of responsibility for a wife and children in their future - resulting in immature, anti social and irresponsible young men

Question 8

feminist criticims of the new right

Answer 8

• NR ideals are exploitive of women - concentrates of nuclear family ideals and ignore issues that not all women are happy to be full time homemakers
• assume all nuclear families are happy units and they cannot be dysfunctional eg: issue of domestic violence

Question 9

critisicms of NR

traditional

Answer 9

• idea of ‘traditional family values in misleading
• NR may be reffering to a perfect past that didnt exist - eg: children in victorian england were expected to work