New Right

A sociological and political perspective that emphasises self-reliance, individual responsibility and traditional values, and argues that welfare provision can encourage dependency.

A political perspective emphasising self-reliance, market competition and traditional values, and criticising welfare provision that it believes encourages dependency.

New Right critics, by contrast, argue that Marxism underestimates the opportunities and social mobility capitalism can provide. Unlike functionalism, Marxism treats class inequality as serving a powerful minority rather than being necessary for society as a whole.

A political perspective favouring a smaller role for the state and a larger role for markets, alongside traditional values and criticism of reliance on welfare benefits.

Explain the link between a New Right belief and its proposed consequences, rather than simply listing marriage, welfare and lone parenthood.

Evaluate with reasons: explain how poverty, inadequate support or family diversity challenges the New Right explanation.

A perspective which favours traditional values, individual responsibility and reduced reliance on the state, and sees the married heterosexual nuclear family as the ideal family form.

The New Right is a perspective which emphasises traditional values, individual responsibility and limited reliance on the state. In debates about families in the UK, it presents the married heterosexual nuclear family as the best foundation for a stable society. This is a preferred family model, not a description of every British family.

A political and sociological perspective which favours the traditional nuclear family and argues that welfare provision can weaken individual and family responsibility.

A political perspective favouring individual responsibility and a limited welfare state, arguing that extensive state support can discourage independence.

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AQA GCSE Sociology · 8192

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