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GCSE Sociology · key term
Reliance on state benefits for income. In Murray’s explanation, benefits encourage continuing reliance by reducing incentives to seek paid work.
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Reliance on state benefits for support; New Right theorists argue that welfare provision can encourage this reliance by reducing incentives to work.
Reliance on state benefits for income. Murray argued that welfare could encourage continuing reliance by weakening incentives to earn a living.
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Component 2
Revise: Culture of PovertyMurray claimed that children growing up without a working parent, and particularly without a father, would not learn mainstream expectations about work and responsibility. They might then repeat their parents’ patterns of worklessness and welfare dependency.
