POLY1000 Lecture 1: POLY1000 Lecture 1
Lecture 1 - Framing Social Policy
Derived from greek polis - city-state
Implies citizenship/civility
process of authoritative allocation of material and human resources according to
certain theories and their underpinning values for the purpose of achieving certain
outcomes for society
goal + instrument
one perspective: aims to improve welfare
other perspective: about shaping wellbeing
Context:
inequality
difference
social divisions
Maintaining order involves categorisation
objects - traffic, addiction, literacy
subjects - citizens, low SES, asylum seekers
places - the State, QLD, AUS
three ways of understanding policy:
output
intentions/objectives - clarifying what we want to achieve
Admin + financial arrangements - how we organise services to achieve these
objectives
Outcomes - impacts
process
activities taken to change/implement policy
how decisions are made - argument, research
interrelated areas
contested
Lifecycle
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