Unit 2 AC4.2 Explain how social changes affect policy development

Question 1

Public perception of crime - Drink Driving

Answer 1

Now seen as serious and reflected in laws e.g. 1967 Road Safety Act.

Question 2

Public perception of crime - Drink Driving Campaigns

Answer 2

•THINK!•Brake

Question 3

Public perception of crime - Smoking

Answer 3

Now seen as undesirable. Laws such as Children and Families Act 2014 prohibits smoking in vehicles when children are present

Question 4

Public perception of crime - Anti-smoking campaigns

Answer 4

ASH (Action on Smoking and Health)

Question 5

LGBT Rights - Before the 1960’s

Answer 5

Same sex activity seen as criminal 1967

Question 6

LGBT Rights - 1967

Answer 6

Decriminalisation of gay sex

Question 7

LGBT Rights - Changing values

Answer 7

•Individualism •Equal Rights•Secularisation

Question 8

LGBT Rights - Further legal changes

Answer 8

•1994 Equal age of consent •2005 Civil Partnerships•2014 Same-sex marriage

Question 9

Demographic changes- Immigration

Answer 9

British society became much more diverse when people immigrated from British Colonies (e.g. India, Pakistan, the West Indies)

Question 10

Demographic changes-Discrimination

Answer 10

Immigrants often suffered discrimination in housing, employment and other services

Question 11

Demographic changes-Race Relations Act 1976

Answer 11

1965 – made race discrimination in public places an offence 1968 – made discrimination in employment, housing and public services an offence 1976 - Covers direct and indirect discrimination

Question 12

Demographic changes-Equality Act 2010

Answer 12

Brought together laws on all kinds of discrimination. Overseen by the Equality and Human Rigts Commission

Question 13

Demographic changes-Cultural changes

Answer 13

Since 1960’s decline in prejudice towards ethnic minorities perhaps due to the change in laws, or due to people mixing at work and at school more

Question 14

Demographic changes-Perception of crime

Answer 14

Discrimination and race hate now seen as crimes. People more likely to accept that these should be criminal offences.

Question 15

Transgender rights- Norms

Answer 15

No longer regarded as medical condition – greater acceptance of choice

Question 16

Transgender rights-Laws

Answer 16

2004 Gender Recognition Act- people can change gender with evidence from a gender recognition panel)

Question 17

Norms

Answer 17

Specific rules or socially accepted standards that govern behaviour in particular situations.

Question 18

Values

Answer 18

General principles or guidelines for how we should live our lives.

Question 19

Mores

Answer 19

Morals or good ways or behaving. Norms that a culture would think of as too serious to break.

Question 20

Individualism

Answer 20

Belief that individuals should have the right to choose how they live their lives, so long as they do no harm to others.

Question 21

Equal Rights

Answer 21

All people should have equal treatment regardless of specific characteristics.

Question 22

Secularisation

Answer 22

The declining influence of religion on people’s lives, attitudes, and values.