Evaluation

• Overall Criticisms:

  • Accused of 'blaming the victim' -> Blaming the poor for the poverty, rather than seeking other explanations
• Marxism:

  • Merely an ideology to justify capitalism and the bourgeoisie
  • Convenient case for cutting public spending on welfare
  • Reducing tax on the wealthy / channeling money into preferred projects
• Additionally, the New Right's focus on promoting traditional family values and the nuclear family structure has been criticized for ignoring the diversity of family forms and the changing dynamics of modern society.
• Feminism:

  • Wrongly assumes that men and women's roles are fixed biologically
  • Negative reaction against feminism campaigns
  • Based on the patriarchal oppression of women
  • Cause of gender inequality