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Unit 1 P5
- Institution
- PEARSON (PEARSON)
Everything you will need for the P5 grade hope this helps thanks
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P5- Identify how society is affected to government policiesThey’re many policies that affect us, for example a few that I will be talking about are Tuition fees,
VAT rises and sales of council houses. In the UK, policies are in place in order to protect us and help
enforce diversity and equality. Sometimes they can be negative as well.
Tuition fees
Tuition fees are is one of the things that effect society, it is probably one of the negatives about
attending further education. If you’re attending university then expect an expensive fee after your
course that you are required to pay back each month. Many graduates are still paying their fees even
after 5-10 years. The main reason why society is affected by the fees is because less people
attending university purely because it’s too costly. Even after graduation, you are not guaranteed a
job so some people become jobless while having to pay back the debt.
VAT rises
Every item you purchase legally has VAT which increases the overall cost of the item. This is normally
a 20% increase which is quite costly depending on the item. If you were to buy a computer for a
computer no vat it would be £500 then the final price would be £600. This means many families are
forced into poverty while they have to struggle on surviving on minimum wage.
Sales of council houses
Selling of council houses is becoming an increasing issue in the UK as people and even businesses are
buying the house out. This means hundreds of family homes are now owned by private landlords or
individual people. As a consequence, families are finding it difficult to find family homes to live in.
When society does not agree with a new policy that the government put into place, it normally
results in protests near government buildings with signs criticising the work of government. However
protests are both peaceful and violets. There are several types of protests which I will talk about
such as sit ins, marching, legal action, striking, violating laws.
Civil disobedience
This is the active, professed refusal of a citizen to obey certain laws, demands, orders or commands
of a government or occupying international power. Civil disobedience is sometimes, therefore,
equated with nonviolent resistance.
Civil disobedience often involves a breach of normal or legal boundaries: public spaces are disrupted
and secret places are infiltrated. It is therefore often treated as trespass by the authorities.
In 1960, the activist and philosopher Bertrand Russell resigned his presidency of the Campaign for
Nuclear Disarmament in order to form the Committee of 100. This more militant resistance
organisation advocated civil disobedience in favour of
peaceful demonstration, believing the former to be a more
effective method of protest against nuclear weapons and
the Vietnam War.
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