Social policy

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  • social policy
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  • A course of action adopted and pursued by government, business or some other organization, which seeks to ensure that all people have acceptable working or living conditions by providing social security, welfare, health care, insurance, fair employment practices, low cost housing or educational opportunities.
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Abstract from DBPedia
    Social policy is a plan or action of government or institutional agencies which aim to improve or reform society. Some professionals and universities consider social policy a subset of public policy, while other practitioners characterize social policy and public policy to be two separate, competing approaches for the same public interest (similar to MD and DO in healthcare), with social policy deemed more holistic than public policy. Whichever of these persuasions a university adheres to, social policy begins with the study of the welfare state and social services. It consists of guidelines, principles, legislation and associated activities that affect the living conditions conducive to human welfare, such as a person's quality of life. The Department of Social Policy at the London School of Economics defines social policy as "an interdisciplinary and applied subject concerned with the analysis of societies' responses to social need", which seeks to foster in its students a capacity to understand theory and evidence drawn from a wide range of social science disciplines, including economics, sociology, psychology, geography, history, law, philosophy and political science. The Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy at Harvard University describes social policy as "public policy and practice in the areas of health care, human services, criminal justice, inequality, education, and labor". Social policy might also be described as actions that affect the well-being of members of a society through shaping the distribution of and access to goods and resources in that society. Social policy often deals with wicked problems. The discussion of 'social policy' in the United States and Canada can also apply to governmental policy on social issues such as tackling racism, LGBT issues (such as same-sex marriage) and the legal status of abortion, guns, euthanasia, recreational drugs and prostitution. In other countries, these issues would be classified under health policy and domestic policy. The study of social policy can either be a stand-alone degree in social policy such as the University of York, Oxford University, and the University of Pennsylvania, or a specialization as part of a public policy degree program such as at McGill University, Balsillie School of International Affairs, Harris School of Public Policy, and the Hertie School of Governance. In the Global South, social policy is offered along with public policy degree programmes, as at the , combined with development policy.

    社会政策(しゃかいせいさく、英: social policy)とは、社会において発生した問題を解決するための公共政策の体系をいう。 もっとも、上に示された定義は一例に過ぎず社会政策の意義については古くから論争がある。日本の社会政策学において示された社会政策の意義のうち著名なものだけで大河内理論、隅谷理論、荒又理論、岸本理論などが知られている。 産業革命により大量の労働者が生まれ、それに伴い都市、工業地帯に貧困者が発生し、また労働者の不満が発生しこれらの政策が必要になった。ビスマルクの工場法が有名である。労働環境改善の問題もあるが、やがて労働者の不満は労働争議のかたちをとるようになり、この政策も必要となる。

    (Source: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Social_policy)