Social changes affect Policy making

• Define mores


  Basic, essential norms that society sees as vital for maintaining standards of decent and civilised behaviour

  • most important moral rules

  Going against societies mores is likely to be severely punished
• Define Norms


  specific rules or socially accepted standards about how we are expected to behave

  • Informal, unwritten - no queue jumping
  • formal, written - law saying you mustn’t do something
• Define Values

  General principles, beliefs or guidelines about how we should live our lives

  Tell us what is right and wrong

  Different societies will have different values

  • modern societies place a high value on pursuing individual wealth
  • tribunal societies - place a high value on the group not the individual