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New Right and Postmodernist Perpsectives
Lesson Objective: To introduce New Right and Postmodernist perspectives on the nuclear family
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The New Right and post modernism offer two contrasting perspectives on the nuclear family
The New Right
The New Right perspective on the nuclear family is very similar to the
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view. New Right ideas developed in the 1980's e.g. Charles
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. The New Right believes that the nuclear family is
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Charles Murray claims that the positive influence of the
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family is under threat from social trends like quick and easy divorces, rising divorce
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. These he believes are responsible for a breakdown in family values which has led to rising crime and other social
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New Right theorists also before that
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benefit payments are too high and that this creates a "culture of
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" which encourages an "underclass" to develop which has little or no interest in
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for a living. Murray believes that single
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should not receive generous benefits because it encourages them to bring up children outside of traditional nuclear
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New Right ideas have influenced the social policies of both recent Labour and Conservative governments both of which have made it more difficult for people to claim and
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benefits. New Right inspired social policies like the Child Support
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aim to force absent
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to pay for the upkeep of their children after divorce rather than the State.
New Right ideas are often criticised for "blaming the
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" of social problems rather than offering real and long lasting solutions
Postmodernism
Post modernists suggest that in the post modern era there is a wide
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of family arrangements people can choose from - nuclear, extended, reconstituted, cohabitation etc. They claim that no one type dominates and that family arrangements are
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and fluid. Post modernists see such flexibility as a positive thing. Judith Stacey for instance suggests that a single individual will experience a variety of family structures throughout their
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