Anti-Permissiveness
Political Studies: Edexcel A Level, topic 5.1.6
Anti-Permissiveness
Anti-permissiveness is when behaviours that some people may disagree with are not allowed to take place.
Anti-permissiveness
- Anti-permissiveness is not allowing people to make their own moral choices.
- This opposes permissiveness, which is when these behaviours are allowed to take place.
- In comparison, liberals accept that individuals have the right to determine their own private moral conduct, so long as they are not causing harm to others.
Examples of anti-permissiveness
- For example, Thatcher introduced Section 28 of the Local Government Act in 1987, which prohibited the mention of homosexuality in school sex education.
- Some people may disagree with same sex marriage as it is not traditional and challenges gender norms.
- Not allowing same sex marriage is an example of anti-permissiveness, and allowing it is an example of permissiveness.
Test yourself on Anti-Permissiveness
What did Section 28 prohibit?