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This 4 page paper is written in two parts. The first part of the paper considers how and why authority within the family has changed ion the UK since the 1950's, including reference to Foucault and sexual liberation. The second part of the paper considers why there has been an increase in welfare consumerism in the UK since the 1980's. The bibliography cites 2 sources.
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social and cultural changes. It may be argued that the ideal of a nuclear family as proposed by Murdock (1949) of a household with two adults of opposite genders in
a sexual relationship and then children, natural or adopted is changing (quoted Haralambos and Holborn, 2000). This may still be seen as a common structure, but there have been increasing
numbers of matrifocal families, families were there are only mothers, or mothers and grand mothers raising children. Following the Second World War many men had been killed and left children
fatherless, started the change but increased divorce rates and single mothers has carried this pattern forward. However we can also see there have been other changes. The authority in any
family will reside with whoever has the economic power and control over how resources are used. Traditionally this would be the father, who would go out to work, and until
the 1970s it was perfectly legal to pay a man more for doing the same job as a woman. Possibly as a result of consumer society, but also as a
result of economic pressures as well as increasing desires for equal rights backed up with equal rights legislation women have become more active in the workplace and as such have
more authority as a result of this economic freedom. There is also the increased sexual liberation. The development of the pill and
the changes in social attitudes have allowed women to make use of sex as a power without the fear of pregnancy or social stigma. Foucault argues sexuality can be associated
with power, and that it is seen not as a biological function, but as a social function that is able to use biological function in order to bring pleasure (Foucault,
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