Everything you need to know about the new right and the family. Included Charles Murray political perspective, the new rights view of the modern family, dependency culture, underclass, self reliance, 2011 riots, single mothers, video analysis, and an evaluation of the new rights view of the family
Charles Murray – political perspective
- Traditional nuclear family with clear gender roles
- New right are critical of other family types (unlike
functionalism)
- Families should be self-reliant (less likely as a
single parent – one income)
- Benefits (welfare state) is too generous
- Benefits have created a ‘dependency culture’
- Underclass
People who don’t work and rely on welfare state
- Socialised into accepting benefits, shy of work,
- Perverse incentives – an incentive that has an
unintended and undesirable result (e.g. welfare
state encouraged single motherhood and men to
leave their children)
The family ‘today’
- Broken as a society
- High divorce rate – 55%
- Don’t like same sex couples (expressive +
instrumental roles needed)
- Don’t like working women
- Must return to traditional values to prevent social
disintegration
Dependency culture – benefits have created it (being
dependent on the welfare state for financial help –
generous welfare).
Underclass – people who don’t work and rely on the
welfare state and are socialised to be shy to work (the
norm) They are the root to societies problems.
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