Unit 2: (Week 03 & Week 04) Social Policy and Society

Social policy is concerned with well-being of people in society. Rather it is much more appropriate to say that social policy is concerned with people who lack well-being – people with particular problems or needs – and the services which provide for them. The kinds of issue which social policy tend to focus ,then,include problems like poverty, poor housing, mental illness, and disability. Social policy is concerned with issues that are social. This unit ' Social Policy and Society' cover following topical areas:

Lecture 3: Week 3

  • The social context of welfare 
  • Economic context of welfare
  • Social policies, needs and welfare
  • Inequality of resource

Lecture 4: Week 4

  • Poverty needs and social policy
  • The social model of disability
  • Risk, vulnerabulity and insecurity

Required Reading

Spicker, P. (2014), Social Policy: Theory and Practice. Policy Press: UK 

Recommended Readings

Beland, D.(2010),What is Social Policy? Understanding the Welfare State. Polity Press: UK

Blakemore, K.(2nd ed.)(2003), Social policy: An Introduction. Open University Press: UK 

 

 

 

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