Policies - diversity Flashcards
(4 cards)
Functionalists - Agree
E - Parsons claims social policy reflects a march of progress, reflecting structural changes swell as changing roles and relationships in a positive way.
E - 2020 Divorce Dissolution Act now no longer elects partners to blame the other in divorce - less damaging to kids. Functionalists see social policy as adapting to suit needs of economy.
E - Feminist postmodernists - Stacey - women have greater choice due to policy e.g. Same Sex Marriage Act 2014.
Dunne - same sex lesbian couples ignore gender script, more negotiated and egalitarian.
New Right - Disagree
E - Murray argues policy should maintain traditional roles - cornerstone of society - Marriage Tax Allowance (2015) encourages a nuclear family.
E - Chubb & Moe argue fatherless families lead to deviance due to the lack of male role models resulting in their break down of discipline.
E - New Labour policy makers look to policies that support diversity - schemes to get women back into work after having children, supporting single parent families.
Post-modernists - Agree
E - Beck argues today family roles and relationships reflect a great individualism that results in less stability (risk society).
E - Today they are many policies that allow greater tolerance for flexible working hours, to fit around family life, joint paternity leave etc. e.g. Shared Parental Leave (2015) parents can share up to 50 weeks of leave and 37 weeks of pay after the birth/adoption of their child.
E - Marxists - Donzelot claim social policy reinforces capitalist ideology. e.g. Working Together to Safeguard Children (2018) are seen as a way to regulate children, according to RC ideas of what is appropriate or hegemony. (Gramsci)
Feminists - Disagree
E - Barrett & Mackintosh argue police reflects wider patriarchal ideology assuming women take role of housewife and carer. Tax relief still exists to encourage traditional marriages where the women stays at home. Child Benefit also is still paid to mother unless challenged.
E - This austerity cut in benefits affected women most negatively and reinforced their marginal position in economy.
E - Late modernists - Giddens - claims relationships affect the fact people live in ‘pure relationships’ and have ‘confluent love’ meaning people only stay in relationships if they are fun and fulfilling. e.g. 2014 Psychological Abuse Act - changing nature of divorce.
