SWP 302 Study Guide - Comprehensive Midterm Guide: Regina Manifesto, Labor Rights, Decommodification

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Social policy" is a vague term the boundaries of which are ill defined, but the content of which is rich. (boulding, 1976) Social policy is concerned with the formation, development and management of specific social services. Social policy is formulated not only by government but also by institutions such as voluntary organizations, business, labour, industry, professional groups, public interest groups and churches (yelaja, 1987, p. 3) Social policy is blurry area with many actors involved. Defining social policy: society struggles to promote the welfare of humans, process of claiming/defining individual & collective needs. For example : osap - the policy tries to define who is qualified as actually needing the assistance: courses of action/inaction. Social policy is a set of : practices put in by authoritative public body (citizens) to respond to human welfare such as safety and social inclusion.

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