Unit 2: AC4.2 - Explain how social change affect policy development

Question 1

Define social values

Answer 1

Rules shared by most people in a given culture based on ideas that they hold in value (change from culture to culture)

Question 2

Define norms

Answer 2

Expectations of how to behave and can be informal (change from culture to culture)

Question 3

Define mores

Answer 3

Society’s most important moral rules for maintaining civilised behaviour (eg don’t kill)
- Social values, norms and mores have all changed over time, resulting in changes to law or policy.

Question 4

What is structure of society?

Answer 4

The way in which society is structured, eg religion

Question 5

What is culture of society?

Answer 5

The attitudes and beliefs of a society eg smoking

Question 6

What is demographic changes

Answer 6

Changes in population eg life expectancy

Question 7

How social change affected women’s rights (7 different points, just remember some)

Answer 7

• Beginning of 20th century, women had very few legal and political rights.
• Suffragette movement fought for the right to vote which then made society change its views towards women.
• 1928: women receive right to vote.
• WW2: women fill many of ‘male’ job roles.
• 1960’s: Women’s Liberation Movement helped make changes concerning equality e.g. education, employment.
• 1970: The Equal Pay Act made it illegal for women to be paid less than men in the same job.
• 1975: The Sex discrimination Act 1975 made it illegal to discriminate against women in work, education and training.

Question 8

In what year was homosexuality decriminalised (society’s changing views of homosexuality)

Answer 8

1967