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    The document discusses the scope of social policy from both narrow and broad views. The narrow view focuses on policies targeted at specific groups like SC/ST, women, children, or elderly. The broad view encompasses comprehensive, integrated policies across areas like health, social welfare, education, and social security. There are also two approaches to social policy - the visionary approach focuses on quality of life and societal relationships, while the academic approach defines social policy as planned actions to achieve objectives. Key characteristics of social policy include redistribution from wealthy to disadvantaged groups and a focus on vulnerable sections of society. Social policies are also influenced by a nation's socio-political context and economic conditions.

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    The document discusses the scope of social policy from both narrow and broad views. The narrow view focuses on policies targeted at specific groups like SC/ST, women, children, or elderly. The broad view encompasses comprehensive, integrated policies across areas like health, social welfare, education, and social security. There are also two approaches to social policy - the visionary approach focuses on quality of life and societal relationships, while the academic approach defines social policy as planned actions to achieve objectives. Key characteristics of social policy include redistribution from wealthy to disadvantaged groups and a focus on vulnerable sections of society. Social policies are also influenced by a nation's socio-political context and economic conditions.

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    The document discusses the scope of social policy from both narrow and broad views. The narrow view focuses on policies targeted at specific groups like SC/ST, women, children, or elderly. The broad view encompasses comprehensive, integrated policies across areas like health, social welfare, education, and social security. There are also two approaches to social policy - the visionary approach focuses on quality of life and societal relationships, while the academic approach defines social policy as planned actions to achieve objectives. Key characteristics of social policy include redistribution from wealthy to disadvantaged groups and a focus on vulnerable sections of society. Social policies are also influenced by a nation's socio-political context and economic conditions.

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    Scope of Social Policy

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    SCOPE OF SOCIAL

    POLICY
    • Narrow View
    • Broad View
    • Narrow View
    • Singular Context
    • Policies which are specific from government side
    What specific means? Any Example?
    • Example: SC/STs oriented

    : Women oriented
    : Child oriented
    : Old age oriented
    • Broad View
    • Plural Context
    Means which are comprehensive and integrated set of policies in the
    social sector
    Health

    Social Welfare

    Education

    Social Security
    • Example:
    • National Health Policy, 1983, 2002
    • National Education Policy, 1968, 1986
    • National Environment Policy, 2006
    • National Youth Policy, 2014
    Approaches
    • According to Richard Titmus, there can be two approaches
    • Visionary
    • Academic
    Visionary?
    • Visionary Approach

    • David Gills’ definition


    • The definition involves welfare of individual’s quality of life, his
    circumstances, and intra societal relationship among individuals,
    groups and the society as a whole.
    Academic?
    • Academic Approach
    • P.D. Kulkarni

    • The definition talks about that


    Social Policy are the course of action indicating
    means and methods following in successive phases to
    achieve desired social policy objectives.
    CHARACTERISTICS OF SOCIAL POLICY

    • Names like Titmuss, Donnison and Boulding have stressed that


    the distinguishing trait of social policy is its distributional or
    redistributive character.

    • Thus the concern of social policy is with social and economic


    justice based on the principle of equality, which means that the
    redistribution of social resources should take place from the
    better off sections to the worse-off sections of society.
    • The second characteristic of social policy is its concern with
    weaker and vulnerable sections of society such as the poor,
    women, children, disabled, and backward classes so as to bring
    them at par with the rest of society. Thus social policies
    visualize an egalitarian society where inequalities are reduced
    to a minimum level.
    • Another characteristic of social policy is that social policies
    do not exist in isolation. These are determined to a large
    extent by the socio-political scenario of a nation, its
    economic viability, and last but not least, by the socio-
    cultural ethos of the people of the nation.
    • After Liberalization, Globalization, and Privatization, policies
    have become global and changes in one corner of the world
    definitely leave an impact on the rest of the world.

    • Most live example of this feature is the opening up of the


    economy by most of the third-world countries in accordance with
    guidelines of the World Bank and International Monetary
    Fund.
    Models of Social Policy
    • Model A: Residual Welfare Model of Social Policy
    • Model B: Industrial Achievement- Performance Model of
    Social Policy
    • Model C: Institutional Redistributive Model of Social
    Policy
    ACTORS IN FORMULATION OF SOCIAL POLICY

    • Evolving social policy everywhere is a challenging task,


    more so in the age of dynamic technological changes
    affecting physical environment and social mobility. Policy
    formulation is done or influenced by following actors:
    • i. Government
    • ii. Political parties
    • iii. Individual reforms
    • iv. Voluntary organizations
    • v. Social action groups
    • vi. Plan documents
    • vii. Laws and courts
    • viii. Parliamentary committees
    • ix. Consumer reactions
    • x. Technological breakdown etc.
    Problems in Policy Implementation?
    • i. Lack of political will
    • ii. Prevalence of coalition government
    • iii. Widespread corruption at each and every level of
    functioning
    • iv. Financial constraints
    • v. Red-tapism
    • vi. Erosion of moral values
    • vii. Financial constraints
    • viii. Inadequate staffing
    • ix. Absence of training
    • x. Lack of people’s participation
    • xi. Gross mismatch between actual needs and perceived
    needs of people
    • xii. Delay in getting justice.
    Strategies for effecting Changes in Policies?
    • i. Use of mass media
    • ii. Creation of public opinion
    • iii. Demonstrations
    • iv. Public Interest Litigation
    • v. Discussions, Meetings and Seminars
    • vi. Building pressure over government
    • vii. Submission of memorandum
    • viii. Signature campaign
    • ix. Pressure groups etc.
    Kulkarni, “Social Policy and Social Development in India”, Association of
    Schools of Social Work in India, 1979.

    Concluded

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