Changing social attitudes

Question 1

What were the two main areas of social change?

Answer 1

Attitude to establishment

Culture

Question 2

What were the key events of breaking down deference (51-64)?

Answer 2

1956 - Suez crisis
1958 - CND protests
1968 - Profumo affair

Question 3

What did the profumo affair 1958 show?

Answer 3

Out of touch with people

Question 4

Who were vocal critics (51-64)?

Answer 4

• Social scientists

- The angry young men

Question 5

What social tensions were reflected in TV (51-64)?

Answer 5

• Racial - (sapphire)
• Violence - (Z cars)
• Social issues e.g. homelessness (cathy come home)

Question 6

What action did Mary Whitehouse take?

Answer 6

She wanted cultural change from the immorality and depravity

Question 7

How did Britain remain (1951-1964)?

Answer 7

Socially conservative

Question 8

What does a permissive society mean?

Answer 8

A society with sexual liberation and a change in public and private morals with a new openess

Question 9

What cultural changes were there (64-70)?

Answer 9

Reduction in censorship

Question 10

What were films previously subject to?

Answer 10

British board of film classification

Question 11

What did Mulberry bush show?

Answer 11

Sexual exploitation of teenagers

Question 12

What was the response to the reduction in censorship?

Answer 12

1964 - Mary Whitehouse ‘clean up tv’ act

1965 - National viewers and listeners association

Question 13

How many members were part of the national viewers and listeners association?

Answer 13

100,000

Question 14

How successful was the national viewers and listeners association?

Answer 14

They failed to increase censorship

Question 15

How much more prevalent did cocaine and heroin addiction become 1964-70?

Answer 15

10 times

Question 16

What was the 1967 Dangerous drugs act?

Answer 16

Made possession of drugs unlawful

Question 17

Who rejected what report in 1968?

Answer 17

James Callaghan (home secretary) rejected the Wooton report

Question 18

What was the Wooton report?

Answer 18

Suggested that soft drugs should be lawful

Question 19

What was the max sentence in prison in 1970 for supplying drugs?

Answer 19

14 years

Question 20

Which schools started teaching about what war in 1965?

Answer 20

Oxford and London School of economics started teaching about Vietnam

Question 21

When was the Vietnam solidarity campaign set up?

Answer 21

1966

Question 22

What happened on 17th March 1968?

Answer 22

Violent anti-vietnam/war protests

Question 23

How many were arrested at the battle of grosvenor square?

Answer 23

200

Question 24

When was the battle of Grosvenor square?

Answer 24

28th March 1968

Question 25

In October 1968 how many people peacefully protested?

Answer 25

30000

Question 26

What is environmentalism?

Answer 26

Political philosophy concerning the health and welfare of the planet including Industrial pollution and Wildlife protection

Question 27

What does ecology mean?

Answer 27

Health of natural environment

Question 28

When was friends of the earth US set up?

Answer 28

1969

Question 29

Which countries did friends of the earth expand to in 1971?

Answer 29

Sweden France Britain

Question 30

When was greenpeace vancouver set up?

Answer 30

1971

Question 31

Why was greenpeace vancouver set up?

Answer 31

To stop whaling

Question 32

When was Greenpeace UK set up?

Answer 32

1977

Question 33

Who and when were the pharmaceutical labs attacked?

Answer 33

Animal rights protestors 1973

Question 34

When was the animal liberation front set up?

Answer 34

1976

Question 35

Where was environmentalism seen in culture?

Answer 35

Watership down 1972 (rabbits forced to move from road development) David Attenborough 1979 series life on earth

Question 36

When was the people's party formed?

Answer 36

1973

Question 37

Why was the people's party formed?

Answer 37

Teddy Goldsmith's report 'blueprint for survival' showing self-sufficiency and a deindustrialised society

Question 38

How many candidates did the people's party put up in 1974 election?

Answer 38

5

Question 39

What name did the people's party change to and when?

Answer 39

1975 - ecology party

Question 40

How many candidates did the ecology party put up in the 1979 election?

Answer 40

53