social policy

Examples of social policy in the following topics:

• Social Regulation

  • Social policy refers to guidelines, principles, legislation and activities that affect the living conditions conducive to human welfare.
  • The Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy at Harvard University describes it as "public policy and practice in the areas of health care, human services, criminal justice, inequality, education, and labor. "
  • Social policy aims to improve human welfare and to meet human needs for education, health, housing and social security.
  • Important areas of social policy are the welfare state, social security, unemployment insurance, environmental policy, pensions, health care, social housing, social care, child protection, social exclusion, education policy, crime, and criminal justice.
  • The term 'social policy' can also refer to policies which govern human behavior.

• Minorities, Women, and Children

  • Minorities, women, and children are often the target of specific social policies.
  • Minorities, women, and children are often the target of specific social policies.
  • In the social sciences, the term minority is used to refer to categories of persons who hold few positions of social power .
  • One major, particularly controversial policy targeting minority groups is affirmative action.
  • Discuss government social policy toward minorities, women and children in the United States

• The Elderly

  • There are several social policy challenges relating to the elderly, who are generally over the age of 65 and have retired from their jobs.
  • Within the United States, senior citizens are at the center of several social policy issues, most prominently Social Security and Medicare.
  • Social security is a social insurance program consisting of retirement, disability, and survivors' benefits.
  • The Social Security Administration was set up in 1935 as part of President Franklin D.
  • Roosevelt's "New Deal. " Social Security is currently the largest social welfare program in the United States, constituting 37% of government expenditure and 7% of GDP.

• Social Marketing

  • Social marketing is the systematic application of marketing to achieve specific behavioral goals for a social good.
  • Social marketing is the systematic application of marketing, along with other concepts and techniques, to achieve specific behavioral goals for a social good.
  • Increasingly, social marketing is being described as having "two parents" - a "social parent," i.e., social sciences and social policy; and a "marketing parent," i.e., commercial and public sector marketing approaches.
  • Social marketing has, in the last two decades, matured into a much more integrative and inclusive discipline that draws on the full range of social sciences and social policy approaches as well as marketing.
  • Social marketing theory and practice has been progressed in several countries such as the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK, and in the latter a number of key Government policy papers have adopted a strategic social marketing approach.

• Policy Adoption

  • Policy adoption is the third phase of the policy process in which policies are adopted by government bodies for future implementation.
  • The media can also play a key role in policy adoption.
  • Bush administration's proposals to change Social Security.
  • Once the relevant government bodies adopt policies, they move into the next phase of the policy process, policy implementation.
  • Bush's plan for Social Security prevented policy adoption.

• The Benefits of Socialism

  • Socialism has a number of theoretical benefits, based on the idea of social equality and justice.
  • Socialist systems have a number of policy tools to help them achieve these goals.
  • Redistribution of wealth, through tax and spending policies that aim to reduce economic inequalities.
  • On the spending side, a set of social policies typically provides free access to public services such as education, health care and child care.
  • These policies aim to guarantee living wages and help produce full employment.

• The Disadvantages of Mixed Economies

  • In contemporary terms, "social democracy" usually refers to a social corporatist arrangement and a welfare state in developed capitalist economies.
  • Critics of contemporary social democracy argue that when social democracy abandoned Marxism it also abandoned socialism and has become, in effect, a liberal capitalist movement.
  • Social democracy can also be contrasted with market socialism.
  • While a common goal of both systems is to achieve greater social and economic equality, market socialism does so by changes in enterprise ownership and management, whereas social democracy attempts to do so by government-imposed taxes and subsidies on privately owned enterprises.
  • Market socialists criticize social democracy for maintaining a property-owning capitalist class, which has an active interest in reversing social democratic policies and a disproportionate amount of power over society to influence governmental policy as a class.

• Shaping Public Policy and Educating Consumers

  • For example, social marketers, dealing with goals such as reducing cigarette smoking or encouraging condom use, have more difficult goals.
  • Public policy is commonly embodied in constitutions, legislative acts, and judicial decisions.
  • Social marketing can help persuade and educate consumers on societal issues with the ultimate goal of helping to shape public policy.
  • Social marketing applies a "customer oriented" approach and uses the concepts and tools used by commercial marketers in pursuit of social goals like anti-smoking campaigns or fundraising for NGOs.
  • Discuss the elements of public policy and the education of customers

• Coordinating and Promoting Party Policy

  • Democratic and Republican National Committees help coordinate and promote party policies but do not organize the creation of policies.
  • The Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Republican National Committee (RNC) help to coordinate and promote party policies, although they are not the central organizations that develop these policies.
  • While the planks of platforms do not all necessarily become policies, they can lead to highly politicized debates between parties that become party policy stances.
  • The DNC and RNC promote party policy in a variety of ways through the mass media.
  • Parties also take advantage of more modern social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.

• Automatic Stabilizers Versus Discretionary Policy

  • In fiscal policy, there are two different approaches to stabilizing the economy: automatic stabilizers and discretionary policy.
  • Discretionary policy is a macroeconomic policy based on the judgment of policymakers in the moment, as opposed to a policy set by predetermined rules.
  • In practice, most policy changes are discretionary in nature.
  • With discretionary policy there is a significant time lag.
  • Finally, automatic stabilizers, such as the tax code and social service agencies, exist prior to an economic fluctuation.