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Families - Coggle Diagram
Families
Perspectives
New Right
Nuclear family is best, it provides proper socialisation with male and female figures
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Do not support the welfare state or single parent families as they believe it breeds worklessness and criminality
Thatcher introduced policy around absent fathers paying maintenance for child upbringing to prevent dependance on the welfare state
Also introduced policy around tax relief for married couples which can be seen by multiple conservative governments as an incentive to remian married/ get married
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Marxism
Unit of consumption - the family exists with children exercising pester power to encourage their parents to support the capitalist system
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Inheritance of property - family exists so property can be passed down throughout generations remaining with the elite not the people
Ideological functions - operates to socialise children to not challenge authority and accept social hierachy
The family perform as a unit of sociological control to perpetuate the bourgeoise and maintain the opression of the proletariat
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