New Right and The Family

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New Right and The Family

• What is the New Right, how does it affect the
  Family?

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New Right and The Family

• Aim To explore and understand New Right theory,
  specific to the Family

• Key Words
• conservative
• Charles Murray
• Dependency
• Welfare State
• Liberalism

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Starter Sociology and Social Policy

• 3 government policies that could be influenced by
  social research?

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The New Right
The new Right meant that social policy was very
conservative. Bush?

• The new right was a massive influence over
  politics in the 80s.
• The New Right is very conservative.
• It is also a sociological perspective.

• Charles Murray and the Family Culture of
  Dependency (Welfare State)
• Right Realism in dealing with Crime.
• The sociological background greatly influenced
  policy (Poll Tax, Less tax for the Rich)

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• The normal nuclear family as the cornerstone of
  society.
• John Redwood (Conservative M.P) the natural
  state should be two adults taking care of their
  children

• The family as Under Threat
• Social changes have undermined the traditional
  norms and values of marriage.

Effect on Social Policy?
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What do they want?

• An end to sexual permissiveness. (Cohabitation,
  LPFs and Homosexually headed families)
• A return to Traditional Family Values (I.E John
  Major 1992 Election)
• These changes will bring an end to social
  problems such as delinquency, educational
  underachievement and child poverty.

Effect on Social Policy?
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Charles Murray The New Rabble

• LPFs have imbibed an Underclass in Society.
• The welfare state encourages dependency and a
  break from traditional values.

• High benefits for single parents have lead to a
  Culture of Dependency
• Families no longer need to be working and can
  merely depend on liberal state handouts.

Effect on Social Policy?
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Criticisms Who and Why?
Inadequate Benefits cause problems
Capitalism doesn't allow the 'traditional' family
structure
Only 15 have a working father and stay at
home mother
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Group Task Your Government

• 10 principles, benefits etc you would put forward
  to countenance the threats to the family put
  forward by New Right theorists
• 10 from a liberal (left wing) perspective that
  would deal with the true issues facing the
  family unit today.

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