SSCI 1200U Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Corporate Social Responsibility, Civil Society
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Mainstream definition: social policy is a broad term encompassing not only social welfare but other activities of government affecting social life. Marriage and divorce legislation and support to culture and the arts are examples of social policy that lie beyond the field of social welfare. The term is also linked with economic policy". I"m an individual so therefore i don"t have to take care of society because that"s the job of the government . The state has a right to intervene in areas of individual freedom and economic liberty: governmental and/or public intervention is necessary when existing social institutions fail to fulfill their obligations. a. There are multiple debates about when, how, and if, government should intervene in these areas: All of these things are part of social policy. But, social policy is also enacted by: it assumes that government is the only entity that does social policy, business, civil society.
