SOCL 2001 Chapter : Lecture Notes Chapter 1 Sociological Perspective Ppt
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Features of thatcherism triumphant : privatization, property-owning democracy - 50% of population in 1979 living in. Council housing, by the end of thatcher"s government only about 15%. Required local governments to sell off their council tenements at a substantial discount to willing tenants. Builds a property owning democracy, people can take care of themselves rather than relying on the state. Also people that owned their own property were more likely to vote conservative: less intended changes: forbade the local governments from using the money made from selling the housing to build more council housing. Families who were middle-lower class bought their houses readily. But lower classes who lived in poorer council housing found themselves stuck. She gutted the unions: lack of cooperation- refused access and denied them influence. She ignored them: the law/ legislation- conservative party maps out a strategy of moving step by step.
