SOC244H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Social Reproduction, Make Poverty History, Policy Analysis
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Lecture 12 families, the state, and social policy. Policies are courses of action adopted by formal organizations. Social policies refer to the actual policies and programs of governments, policies that affect people"s welfare. Guidelines and interventions for changing, maintenance or creation of living conditions that are conductive to human welfare. Part of public policy that has to do with social issues. Social policy aims to improve human welfare and to meet humans needs for education, health, housing and social security. The principles, activities, or framework for action adopted by a government to ensure a socially defined level of individual, family, and community well-being. Those collective interventions that contribute to the general welfare by assigning claims from one set of people who are said to produce to earn national income to another set of people who may merit compassion or charity . A subset of social policy that regulates the provision of benefits to people to meet basic life needs .
