4.2 Flashcards
What are values
Things we believe are important
What are norms
Moral behaviour, specific rules
What are morals
They regulate our behaviours, they maintain standers
Why do laws change over time
Laws change over time due to norms and values.
How is drink driving an example of this?
Was seen okay if you could do certain things
Adverts would show people liking too drink and drive
1925 the first law governing making drink driving
For many years public attitudes to drink drive were tolerant.
Changing in perception:
Road safety was becoming more of a public concern and moving up in the political agenda - in 1966 all cars had seat belt.
1967 - road safety act
1983 - the high risk offender scheme was introduced for convicted drivers with an alcohol problem.
1991 - a new offence of causing death by driving while under the influence of alcohol or drugs for a senatce up to too five - six years
The penalty now is six months imprisonment, an unlimited fine and at least a year driving ban
When were breathalysers introduced?
In 1968, the first breathalyser was introduced for roadside use
Helped reduce Road deaths by 1100 and serious injuries by over 11,000
Proportion of accidents went from 25% to 15%
campigns and drink driving
the first tv advert campaign was around 50 years ago, since than the amount of deaths have decrerased
in 2014. a survey by the goverment showed that thinks campaign against drink driving showed that there had been a massive change in poeples attuides.
the survey found that 91%of people agreed that drink driving was unacceptable and 92% said they would feel ashamed if the were caught drink driving -.
demographic changes
during the 1950s and 1960s, non white immigrants came from former british colonies in the carriabean.
in 1945 less than 20,000 non white residents lived in england.
the windrush generation
the early arrivals of this was known as the windrush generation faced hostility, with many white people holding racist steryotypes of black people as dirty, diseased or criminal.
discrimination throughout the 1950s and 60s were often met through housing and emplyoment.
in1956 a survey in birminham found that only 1.5 % of brits were willing to let a room to a black tennet. this led to explotation by lanlords letting slums housing ti immigrants who frequently got low pay etc.
the acts that went against this
1965 - race relations act- banned discrimination in public places
a ruther one in 1968 - outlawed discrimination was not allowed in places of emplyoment, housing and public services
in 1967- both those acts were replaced by the race relations act which significatly strengthed the law and made it for both direct and indirect discrimination.
2000 - race relations act
2007 - human rights commisor
2010 - equlity act
cultral changes;
since the 1960s there has been a cultral change, a decline in prejudice towards ethinic minorties.
the 1987 british attuides survey found that 39% of people said they were racially prejudiced whereas by 2017 this had fallen too 26%
similarily according to an 2018 survey by the birtish future showed that 66% of the over 65s inethinic minorities and the level of racical prejudice is lower that it was in 1968
