The new right

The new right

1. who are the new right?

   • Its mainly conservative traditions and mainly involves freedom of the people.
   • In 1942 the Beveridge report was created arose as a criticism of the welfare state.
   • This was very influential in 1980-90s under Thatcher and Reagan

2. Statistics

   • The traditional family households of married couples with dependent children has fallen from 52% down to 37%.
   • Only 1/4 of children lived with only one parent, usually the mother.

3. The Golden age of the family

   • The new right is a traditional nuclear family.
   • The reason why the 'social structure' has several problems is due to the decline of both traditional family values and structure.
   • These problems are mainly crime, high spending on welfare benefits, educational underachievement and the 'under class'

4. Ideology of the family

   • The ideology of the family is a set of ideas what makes the ideal family.
   • They include: traditional nuclear family, clear sexual division of labour and women as mothers in the home.

5. Evaluation

   • These views are often more political that sociological and are not backed by empirical evidence.
   • Not addressing the real cause which is inequality in society and blames single-parent families.
   • There is no evidence of the golden age.
   • Evidence in history shows that family break down, crime, poverty, domestic violence and lone-parenting is not new.
   • According to feminist the family gives the women a source of oppression.
   • Families can lead to upset such as 'the dark side' side of the family such as domestic violence etc.