4.2

Question 1

What are social values?

Answer 1

Rules that are shared by most people in a culture or the ideas that they hold in value. They are more general guidelines than norms

Question 2

Give an example of a social value

Answer 2

• How most people feel as if the elderly should be respected

- That seats on public transport should be given up for old people to sit on

Question 3

What is a Norm?

Answer 3

Social expectations that guide behaviour

Question 4

What is a Social Expectation?

Answer 4

The expected behaviour of a society (that can change from culture to culture)

Question 5

What is the result of a change in Social Values, Norms and Morals?

Answer 5

Changes to law and or policy

Question 6

What might change accordingly as society becomes increasingly tolerant?

Answer 6

Norms and Values

Question 7

What has a significant impact on policy development?

Answer 7

A change in social values and attitudes

Question 8

Back in the 16th Century, Homosexuality was punishable by death. What happened in the 19th Century?

Answer 8

Homosexuality had the death penalty removed as a punishment, but was still illegal

Question 9

When was Homosexuality decriminalized?

Answer 9

1967

Question 10

What did the increasing tolerance around homosexuality within society cause?

Answer 10

More pressure on the government, leading to new laws introducing equality

Question 11

What happened in 2004 in relation to Homosexuality?

Answer 11

The Civil Partnership Act was passed, allowing same sex partnerships

Question 12

What happened in 2013 in relation to Homosexuality?

Answer 12

The Marriage Act was passed, allowing same sex couples to get married

Question 13

What did the huge tone shift around homosexuality introduce and result in?

Answer 13

Laws that make it a criminal offence to discriminate against someone on the grounds of their sexual orientation, which resulted in the Equality Act 2010

Question 14

Back in the early 1960s almost everybody smoked. But how many knew about the health issues it caused and what were they?

Answer 14

Around less than half of Americans actually knew that smoking caused health problems like Lung Cancer and Heart Disease

Question 15

What made Smoking a social norm?

Answer 15

The fact that almost everybody did it, and that it was marketed everywhere

Question 16

When was the first report on the relationship between Smoking and Health and what did it show?

Answer 16

1964. It showed that there was a strong link between Smoking, Lung Cancer and therefore Heart Disease

Question 17

How has the Social Norm promoting smoking changed?

Answer 17

The environment around smoking has changed to make tobacco less attractive

Question 18

What methods were used to change the Social Norm around smoking?

Answer 18

The use of graphic images on cigarette boxes and the basic advertisement of health issues that are and can be caused by smoking

Question 19

What two prominent policies have been publically used by governments to try and ‘crackdown’ on smoking?

Answer 19

• Making smoking illegal in specific areas

- Making smoking punishable by a fine in specific areas

Question 20

Give an example of a Campaign against smoking

Answer 20

ASH (Action on Smoking and Health)

Question 21

What do ASH campaign?

Answer 21

They campaign for public health and try to eliminate the harm caused by Tobacco

Question 22

Over recent years, campaigning against the smoking of cigarettes has resulted in numerous pieces of restrictive legislation. Give an example - (2002)

Answer 22

The Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Act 2002 banned the advertising and promotion of tobacco products

Question 23

Over recent years, campaigning against the smoking of cigarettes has resulted in numerous pieces of restrictive legislation. Give an example - (2006)

Answer 23

The Health Act 2006 then went on to prohibit smoking in enclosed and substantially enclosed work and public area

Question 24

At the beginning of the 20th century, women had very few legal and political rights. What was the Stereotype of a married woman?

Answer 24

That they would be the one to stay at home and look after the children as well as cook and clean, while the husband went out to work

Question 25

At the beginning of the 20th century, what stereotypical jobs did unmarried women have?

Answer 25

Teaching, Waitress or Cooking

Question 26

What did the Suffragette Movement (1903) fight for and what did women do?

Answer 26

The right to vote, as women would rebel against marriage, seeking education and inequality

Question 27

What was a positive consequence of the Suffragette Movement in 1903?

Answer 27

Society slowly started to change its views about women and witnessed the passage of legislation

Question 28

In 1928, what ability was introduced to support Women’s Rights?

Answer 28

The ability for both women and men to vote

Question 29

What did the 1960s Women’s Liberation Movement introduce?

Answer 29

New policies concerning equality, as well as some that touched upon issues of education, discrimination and employment

Question 30

In 1970, what policy was introduced to support Women’s Rights?

Answer 30

The Equal Pay Act which made it illegal to women lower rates than men for the same work

Question 31

In 1975, what policy was introduced to support Women’s Rights?

Answer 31

The Sex Discrimination Act 1970 made it illegal to discriminate against women in work, education and training