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Families and Social Policies (Examples (Chine one child, Communist Romania…
Families and Social Policies
Definition - a plan or action put in place by the government to tackle a social issue or improve people's lives
Examples
Chine one child
Communist Romania
Nazi Germany
Modern day Britain
Functionalist view (consensus)
Should be there to help family function
Helps through Welfare state
Formed during industrial revolution and accelerated after World Wars
Donzelot's view (conflict)
Sees policies as form of state power and control over families
Interested in how professionals carry out surveillance on families
Social workers & doctors use their knowledge to control and change families ( 'policing of families')
Target poor as problem families that need to be fixed
New Right (conflict)
Way of undermining and changing the nuclear family
Problem for government and wider society
Solution = cut social policies within welfare to keep families together and encourage teenagers not to get pregnant
Feminists (consensus & conflict)
Liberal (consensus)
Approve due to recent moves to equality
e.g. equal pay and divorce legalisation by women
Radical (conflict)
Policies oppress women
e.g. longer maternity leave assumes women will be main caregiver