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F6 Family
Family Ideology and Policy
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are the two types of Family Policies? | Direct Policies: Specifically promoting or rejecting an identified type of family. Indirect Policies: Policies that do not target families, but can have unintended consequences for families |
| What is Family Ideology? | A perspectives beliefs, expectations and assumptions about the family |
| What is the Functionalist Family Ideology? | The family is a universal, natural institution that benefits everyone in society |
| What is the Marxist Family Ideology? | The family is an unnatural institution, societies should live as a promiscuous hard, because clear, identifiable offspring and traditional family roles only benefit the wealthy in society |
| What is the Feminist Family Ideology? | Current roles in the family are not natural, gender roles have been imposed to allow the family to support patriarchal males |
| What is the New Right Family Ideology? | The family is a natural institution, that has been prevented from carrying out its role due to misguided policy changes; families need to be more traditional and self reliant |
| What is the Social Democratic Family Ideology? | Families are a right that all members of society should enjoy and have access to, currently not all of society has equal rights to enjoy the family, which needs to be progressively improved |
| What is the Late Modern Family Ideology? | Families have become more diverse in recent years, individuals are more reflexive (reflecting and aware that they are part of and shaped by institutions, better able to choose the family they want) |
| What is the Functionalist approach to Family Policy? | Family policy should interfere with the family as little as possible and encourage the traditional nuclear family. Traditional functionalist views of the family often conflict with modern progressive polices |
| What is the Marxist approach to Family Policy? | Family policy acts as a smokescreen: policy appears to benefit all of society, but only benefits the bourgeoisie. |
| What is the Radical Feminist approach to Family Policy? | Family policy reinforces patriarchal values and encourages women to be domestic. Recent policies provide the illusion of equality but have not radically changed the gender structural disadvantage |
| What is the Liberal Feminist approach to Family Policy? | Family policy has improved the role of women, giving more choice and opportunity and freedom from abuse and oppression |
| What is the New Right approach to Family Policy? | Family policy ideally should not interfere with the family, but now new family policy is needed to strengthen the traditional nuclear family after previous policies that undermined it |
| What is the Social Democrat approach to Family Policy? | Family policy encourages freedom from discrimination and support for disadvantaged groups who deserve equal family rights |
| What is the Late Modern approach to Family Policy? | Family policy should acknowledge diversity and allow individuals some choices regarding family life |
| What are the Conservative Party's approach to Family Policy? | Preference for traditional, nuclear families with traditional gender roles, less government spending and less benefits |
| What Perspectives are the Conservatives mostly influenced by? | The New Right and Functionalist beliefs |
| What is an evaluation of Conservative Family Policies? | Modern conservative policies have left the UK with some of the highest costs of living and other expenses compared to other Global North societies |
| Name three Conservative Government Policies that have affected the Family | Same Sex Marriage 2013, 2015 caps to Universal Credit, Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Bill 2020, etc |
| What are the Labour Party's approach to Family Policy? | Traditionally Labour focused mostly on socialist/Marxist inspired polices that benefited the working class and other marginalised groups. New Labour began to privatise services to save money and reduce tax percentages |
| What Perspectives is the Labour Party mostly influenced by? | Social Democrats, Late Modern, New Right (belief in low taxes and privatisation) |
| What is an evaluation of Labour Family Policies? | Many Marxist, socialists and left realists wish to see a return to higher taxes for the wealthy, less marketisation and privatisation and greater spending on the poor |
| Name three Labour Government Policies that have affected the Family | Family Planning Act 1967, Divorce Reform Act 1969, Higher Education Act 1998 |
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