SSCI 1200U Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Child Support, Old Age, Subdominant

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Value-critical perspectives, social justice, social action, rights/entitlements. Guiding principles for ways of life, motivated by basic and perceived needs gil, 1990. Social policy is a course of action or inaction chosen by public authorities to address an issue that deals with human health, safely or wellbeing westhaus. Public authorities: front-line workers, bureaucrats, government/elected officials politicians, media. Is the group missing people: voluntary organizations, business/labour/industry, public interest groups, religious organizations. Social: human, well-being, role in society. Social policy is all about social purposes and the choices between them. These choices and the conflict between them have continuously to be made at the governmental level, the community level, and he individual level. At each level by acting or not acting, by voting or not voting, by opting in or contracting out we can influence the direction in which choices are made. (timuss) Macro international: federal/provincial public policies.

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