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FAMILIES AND HOUSEHOLDS (5) - SOCIAL POLICIES, print this mind map! for…

- - - - the introduction of health, education + housing policies has led to the creation of the welfare state, helping families perform their function
    - - assumes all family members benefit equally from social policies; feminists: social policies benefit men more
      - assumes 'march of progress'; marxists: policies reverse previous progress by cutting welfare benefits to poor families
  - - - there is no consensus, but conflict - policies are state power and control over families
      - uses foucault's surveillance (panopticism); power isn't just held by the govt. state, but also throughout society in all relationships
      - he differs to functionalists as he sees social policy as control over the family instead benefitting them + society
  - - - argues welfare pay offers 'perverse incentives' so they reward irresponsible/ anti-social behaviour
      - state manages children - more opportunity to abandon family responsibilities
      - council housing encourages younger pregnancies
      - lone parent families and greater benefits - more boys lack male role models (inadequate socialisation) -> more crime
      - social policies encourage dependency culture instead of being self-reliant, threatening functions of successful primary socialisation and maintenance of work ethic among men
    - - functionalists say welfare benefits help the family and meet their needs
    - - laws making divorce easier undermines marriages of man and woman
      - civil partnerships undermines hetero marriage's superiority
      - tax laws discriminate; the working partner pays more tax than dual-earners, who have tax allowance
    - - denying council housing (discouraging young pregnancies)
      - policies to support the nuclear family (tax support for the married, fathers taking financial responsibility)
      - cutting welfare benefits (fathers are pushed to work + support their families)
  - - - policies assume the ideal family is nuclear patriarchal with trad roles
      - reinforce certain family types to lead to the self-fulfilling prophecy (e.g. through tax incentives), so it'd make it difficult to live in other family types
    - - existence of equal pay + sex discrimination laws
      - marital rape becoming an offence in 1991 (possible critique for the critique: for how late this law came about shows that women's rights still aren't as prioritised as they should be)