This chapter focuses on social policy today, which involves the evaluation of societal responses to social problems such as poverty, social exclusion and unemployment. The main strength of this chapter in the in depth look of how social policy affects us in modern society and how this subject is ever evolving and changing looking back to the origins of social policy with Attlee, Tawney and Marshall in the coalition to now with David Cameron’s ‘Big Society’ agenda. In particular, this chapter will assist my assignment in showing how vast social policy is, how it has changed throughout the last 70 years, incorporating a more fluid mix of state, private and voluntary interventions and finally, how the ‘traditional’ social policy approach merging with the ‘theoretical’ approach is a modern and positive development. (131 words).
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Lone parents are categorically more likely to be women who have been divorced instead of widowed. It examines that although lone parenthood is not new they remain especially vulnerable to poverty. This chapter also examines the righting of wrongs and how existing social policies can be put right. In the example of drug use, it is seen as a social injustice or a violation of a person’s rights? Dean argues not with how social problems arrive on the political agenda but, how they will be analysed and interpreted which leads on to a social construction of ‘blaming the victim’, arguing that lone parents should not have had children or left their partners unnecessarily and that homeless people should have been more self-sufficient. The focus on social problems and how they are perceived will benefit my assignment greatly due to the diversity of examples and reliable information. (168
Lone parents are categorically more likely to be women who have been divorced instead of widowed. It examines that although lone parenthood is not new they remain especially vulnerable to poverty. This chapter also examines the righting of wrongs and how existing social policies can be put right. In the example of drug use, it is seen as a social injustice or a violation of a person’s rights? Dean argues not with how social problems arrive on the political agenda but, how they will be analysed and interpreted which leads on to a social construction of ‘blaming the victim’, arguing that lone parents should not have had children or left their partners unnecessarily and that homeless people should have been more self-sufficient. The focus on social problems and how they are perceived will benefit my assignment greatly due to the diversity of examples and reliable information. (168