The New Right developed in the 1980s during Margaret Thatcher's time as Prime Minister of the UK. It challenged the view that the government should play a large role in welfare and instead believed that welfare should be the individual's responsibility to avoid creating a dependent culture. The New Right also supported private enterprise over state involvement in the economy and traditional family values with two parents rather than single parent families.

1. THE NEW RIGHT
Unit 7 Sociological Perspectives

2. The New Right
 Developed in the
1980’s
 The conservative
party were in power
 Margaret Thatcher
was the prime
minister
 Challenges the
Collectivist
perspective

3. The New Right
• The government should play only a small role
in providing welfare
• Welfare should be the responsibility of the
individual
• Otherwise a dependant culture will be
developed draining resources
• Private enterprise should be encouraged,
produces competition which benefits the
economy

4.  http://www.channel4.com/programmes/benefit-
busters/video/series-1/episode-1/welfare-
revolution

5. London Riots
Single parent family

6. “Single parent families are the
biggest social problem of our
day.”
John Redwood, British MP

7. The New Right and Family
• The New Right support traditional "family
values", two-parent, heterosexual couples are
the "natural" or ideal way to raise children
• Children brought up by two parents are better
educationally, physically. psychologically and
socially than children brought up by single
children.
• Families should not be reliant on the
government for welfare; they should "look after
their own".