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Functionalism

• New Right- Grows out of Functionalism
• Society works best when there is a free market (people can negotiate their identity)
• First proposed by Adam Smith (1723-1790)
• He believed that wages and practices of companies should not be regulated by the state
• Believe Capitalism is the fairest way to organise society.
• Those who fail- it is there own fault
• meritocracy is true
• The harder you work the better your outcomes
• Trickle Down
• Believe in individualism
• the most talented and the hardest workers get the most in society- they then spend it and it goes back into society
• Hayek- policies such as benefits and state-regulated wages results in people becoming serfs of the state
• Capitalism provides people with freedom
• Murray 1984- state intervention has led to a dependency culture
• media promotes the creation of underclass through benefit programs
• Marsland 1988- New Right provides a welcome positive view of Capitalism that brings a balance to the often negative Marxist perspective