Social Policies

Question 1

What are the 2 cross cultural policies?

Answer 1

Chinas one child policy
Nazi Germany Hitlers perfect family

Question 2

What did the one child policy cause in China?

Answer 2

Reduce dependency ratio meaning there are more adults to support dependency children

Question 3

What did Nazis ‘perfect family’ cause?

Answer 3

Promote the expressive role to trap women which reinforces the patriarchy

Question 4

What was the one child policy?

Answer 4

The population in China was so high that they limited every couple to one child

Question 5

What is Germanys ‘perfect family’?

Answer 5

They got rid of all the Jews as they didn’t fit the stereotype that Hitler wanted (blonde hair blue eyes)

Question 6

What are democratic societies?

Answer 6

Where people free to choose their leadership who are less intrusive in the family lives of citizens

Question 7

When do the government intervene in family life?

Answer 7

When things go wrong

Question 8

How do social policies directly affect the family?

Answer 8

They intend to shape the family

Question 9

How do social policies indirectly affect the family?

Answer 9

Intend to do other things but shape the family in the process

Question 10

Name 7 policies that changed the family?

Answer 10

Gay marriage
Adoption rights for single, cohabiting and gay couples
Chinas one child policy
Abortion
Tax break for married couples
Divorce reform act
Equality act

Question 11

What 2 things did the Conservative party do for families?

Answer 11

Banned promotion of homosexuality by banning teaching it as an acceptable family relationship
Set up child support agency

Question 12

What view do the Conservative party take?

Answer 12

New Right

Question 13

What 2 things did New Labour do for families?

Answer 13

Accept diversity
Support those who are materially and culturally deprived

Question 14

How did the New Labour accept diversity?

Answer 14

Changes to the law on adoption
Gay and cohabiting couples have the same right to adopt
Longer maternity leave

Question 15

What is the Coalition?

Answer 15

Conservative dividing between Modernists and Traditionalists

Question 16

How has the dividing of the Coalition impacted families?

Answer 16

Struggling to maintain consistent policies
Cutting benefits
Tuition fee increase

Question 17

What do Functionalists believe about social policy?

Answer 17

The state acts in the interests of society as a whole and helps families perform their functions more effectively

Question 18

What does Functionalist Fletcher believe about social policy?

Answer 18

NHS services help the family take care of its members better

Question 19

What is a criticism of the Functionalist perspective of social policies?

Answer 19

Assumes policies help all families but may disadvantage due to cuts on welfare benefits for poor families

Question 20

What do Feminists believe about social policy?

Answer 20

They help maintain women’s subordinate position and see the nuclear family as the ideal family with separate gender roles

Question 21

What 3 policies may support patriarchy and how?

Answer 21

Tax and benefits- women don’t get social unity as they assume that men are the main wage earners
Childcare policies- Lack of affordable childcare limits women to getting the best jobs
Care for sick and elderly- traditional housewife role

Question 22

What does Feminist Leonard say about social policy?

Answer 22

Policies such as maternity leave and childcare allowance reinforce patriarchy even though they are meant to support women

Question 23

What is a criticism of the Feminist view of social policy?

Answer 23

Liberal feminists take a march of progress view

Question 24

What do the New Right believe about social policy?

Answer 24

Nuclear family is the best family type and if roles are performed correctly the family will be self-reliant and the welfare state shouldn’t need to be involved in the family

Question 25

What do the New Right believe diversity has caused?

Answer 25

A dependency culture

Question 26

What does New Right sociologist Almond say about social policy?

Answer 26

Divorce and Gay marriage undermine the nuclear family

Question 27

What 3 policies do the New Right support?

Answer 27

Tighter benefit restrictions
Better taxes for married couples
Child support agencies (making absent fathers pay for their children)

Question 28

What is a criticism of the New Right view of social policy?

Answer 28

Radical feminists- reinforce patriarchy through the expressive role

Question 29

What is the Marxist view of social policy?

Answer 29

Policies serve capitalism

Question 30

What policies serve capitalism and how?

Answer 30

Low state pensions show that once workers are too old to produce profits, they are maintained at the lowest possibly cost
NHS- caring face of capitalism

Question 31

What is a criticism of the Marxist view of social policy?

Answer 31

Other Marists say that they have the wrong idea for example the NHS means healthcare is free to get workers healthy as quick as possible for them to work

Question 32

What does Donzelot believe about social policy?

Answer 32

Policies help the state to control families and that we are constantly being watched ‘policing the family’

Question 33

What does Foucault say about surveillance within the family?

Answer 33

Professionals such as social workers and health visitors carry out surveillance

Question 34

What is a criticism of Donzelots view of social policy?

Answer 34

Marxists and Feminists- not fully identified who benefits from such policies of surveillance and ignores patriarchy