Impact of Government Policies and Laws on Family Life: Sociological View

Government policies and laws include tax and benefit policies as well as legislation such as that relating to divorce and marriage. Sociologists have different views on the impact of these policies and laws on families. For example, feminists argue that social policies assume that the ideal family is a patriarchal nuclear family, and that government policies and laws therefore favour this sort of family.

The background of social welfare has impacted the policies for today’s social welfare and TANF policy. There are several policies

While it may first appear that ‘personal lives’ and ‘social policy’ are two distinct areas of everyday life, closer exploration will show how close the two intertwine and entangle and actually provide a way for each to give meaning and constitution to each other (Fink and Lewis et al, pg 6). This essay will attempt to explain and illustrate the idea of the mutual constitution of personal lives and social policy using a personal narrative by Jane Campbell.

Since the early nineteenth century the reformist of social democracy has hugely affected the development of social policy. Basing its principles on the two theories, socialism and liberalism it has influenced social democracy. The state is a key instrument that constructs social change, social democracy protects individual liberty and believes in state intervention to better the welfare and equality among the public. Altogether social democracy is a theory used by social democrats to transform from capitalism to a welfare state, extending the rights and freedom for citizens. Social democrats accept the confined role of markets, and the economic system. Social democracy is achieved through parliament distributing goods and implementing policies that support the welfare promoting egalitarianism, such as taxing the wealthy to redistribute wealth.

the human and the subhuman disappear…it intends to elevate the great of workers to the

A social reformism government believe that everyone is equal and should have the same opportunities no matter what their background. They argue

According to Walsh. M (et al), (2000, pg 2), stated that “the key focus of social policy in the united kingdom is on social welfare provision. Social policy is essential concerned with the practice and study of state, or government, social welfare provision, and the healthcare and welfare systems.”

First of all ‘social policy entails the study of the social relations necessary for human wellbeing and the systems by which wellbeing may be promoted’ (Dean, 2006: 1). A more explicit description is that social policy is a policy that deals with various social issues. Such issues may involve cultures, discrimination against race and gender and diseases that are stigmatized among many others.

The main statement of the European social policy is the Social Charter (approved by 11 of the then 12 member states) which seeks to improve working and living conditions and ensure the effective use of human resource across the EU. This policy seeks to guarantee rights to individuals in areas such as freedom of movement, improved living and working standards,

The main statement of the European social policy is the Social Charter (approved by 11 of the then 12 member states) which seeks to improve working and living conditions and ensure the effective use of human resource across the EU. This policy seeks to guarantee rights to individuals in areas such as freedom of movement, improved living and working standards,

A social policy is a public policy and practice in the areas of health care, human services, criminal justice, education, and labor. (Malcolm Wiener Centre) In European Union, it has passed a long way to seeking adopt a common social policy and social welfare agenda among the E.U. member states. Caune et al has summarized the process of social policy into three steps followed by the milestone of EU. First stage was to create a common market and keep the national welfare policies. During the first stage E.U. did seek to establish a certain

Modern welfare state development is generally considered to lead to social security or benefits payments, social housing provision, health provision, social work and educational services.

The government decides how much funding get put into social policy, social policy is contradicted on what we can do and the way we our affected by changes and what we are entitled too.

There are different approaches and methods used to evaluate social policies. Social policies can be evaluated for many reasons including: tracking a policy’s progression or tracing a policy’s successes or failures. There is limited research concerning any significant differences in how social policies are evaluated in terms of method, compared to other policies such health or public policy. Yet the approach to designing of a particularly can subjective during an evaluation in terms of what exactly is being measure, the reason and what particular tools will be used.

A Social policy entails the provision of social services in a state, that can be categorized into the broad dimensions of society and politics, the construction of a social policy is concerned with the issues faced in the provision and administration of the essentialities of a society (Spicker). A rather varying category of factors fall under the study of a social policy; these factors such as literacy, health, employment and crime comprise of perhaps the most major implications on the wellbeing of a society’s members, therefore it can also be said that the social policy is the study of the systems of a society that constitute its members wellbeing (Reisch). Socialism refers to political and economic theory of social organization where the factors of production and capital is owned by the community as a whole which is the reverse of liberalism which promotes private ownership and depends highly on the efficiency of the market forces. Where liberalism focuses on private benefit and individualism, socialism is inclined towards societal growth and common interest hence, promoting standard educational, health and housing facilities to the entire society to reduce class difference. Socialism is sometimes used synonymously with communism, however, socialism, although similar in demanding rights for the working class, differs in its formation and implications. It grew mainly through the formation of groups both communal and occupational, which demanded more rights and greater