AS 91600 · 4 credits · Internal
Social action campaign
Examine a campaign of social action(s) to influence policy change(s)
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You need to pick a real campaign that tried to change government policy, then explain how it worked and why people joined in. You'll analyse the methods the campaigners chose and whether those methods actually helped them reach their goal.
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What you actually do
- ·Identify what policy change the campaign wanted to achieve and explain the campaign's main aims using specific examples
- ·Describe why different individuals and groups got involved—their own reasons might have differed from each other
- ·Explain why the campaigners chose particular action methods and how those methods were designed to push for the policy change they wanted
- ·For Merit: explore the real and potential consequences of the campaign—what actually happened as a result, and what could have happened
- ·For Excellence: judge how effective the campaign really was and suggest specific changes that could have made it work better
AAchieved
You identify the campaign's policy goal, explain different groups' reasons for joining, and describe what methods were used and why.
MMerit
You do all of Achieved, then analyse the real and possible outcomes the campaign had—what worked and what the ripple effects were.