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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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