Examples of social policy in the following topics:
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- It consists of social relations involving authority or power, the regulation of political units, and the methods and tactics used to formulate and apply social policy.
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- Political sociology studies the relation between state and society, authority and power, and the methods used to formulate social policy.
- It consists of social relations involving authority or power, the regulation of political units, and the methods and tactics used to formulate and apply social policy.
- It also explored how various social forces work together to change political policies.
- The theory posits that a small minority—consisting of members of the economic elite and policy-planning networks—holds the most power.
- Through positions in corporations, corporate boards, and policy-planning networks, members of the "elite" are able to exert significant power over the policy decisions of corporations and governments.
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- Democratic socialism combines the political philosophy of democracy with the economic philosophy of socialism.
- Democratic socialism combines the political philosophy of democracy with the economic philosophy of socialism.
- Democratic socialism contrasts with political movements that resort to authoritarian means to achieve a transition to socialism.
- Democratic socialism became a prominent movement at the end of the 19th century.
- In 2012, French voters elected the Socialist Party candidate, François Hollande, into office with the expectation that he will meet his campaign promises to introduce greater socialist policy.
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- Sociology is the study of human social life.
- Sometimes the goal of sociology is to apply such knowledge to the pursuit of government policies designed to benefit the general social welfare.
- Macrosociology involves the study of widespread social processes.
- The traditional focuses of sociology have included social relations, social stratification, social interaction, culture, and deviance, and the approaches of sociology have included both qualitative and quantitative research techniques.
- The range of social scientific methods has also been broadly expanded.
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- Social mobility is the extent to which individuals can move between social positions, either in their lifetime or between generations.
- Affirmative action programs can be considered public policy attempts to increase social mobility in the United States.
- Social mobility refers to the movement of individuals or groups in social position over time.
- Most commonly, social mobility refers to the change in wealth and social status of individuals or families.
- Social mobility can be enabled to varying extents by economic capital, cultural capital, human capital, and social capital.
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- These methods would serve to constitute the social order of being a juror in that specific social setting.
- Ethnomethodological indifference: Ethnomethodology maintains a policy of deliberate agnosticism, or indifference, towards the dictates, prejudices, methods, and practices of sociological analysis.
- The policy of ethnomethodological agnosticism is specifically not to be conceived of as indifference to the problems of social order; ethnomethodological agnosticism refers to only seeing social concerns as society's members see them.
- Sacks' Gloss: Sacks' Gloss suggests that a researcher interested in questions pertaining to a specific social order should seek out the members that social order for answers.
- Ethnomethodology's field of investigation: Ethnomethodology's topic of study is the social practices of real people in real settings and the methods by which these people produce and maintain a shared sense of social order.
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- Sociology is a branch of the social sciences that uses systematic methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop and refine a body of knowledge about human social structure and activity, sometimes with the goal of applying such knowledge to the pursuit of government policies designed to benefit the general social welfare.
- Macrosociology involves the study of widespread social processes.
- Its traditional focuses have included social relations, social stratification, social interaction, culture and deviance, and its approaches have included both qualitative and quantitative research techniques.
- The social world is changing.
- Sociology, then, is an attempt to understand the social world by situating social events in their corresponding environment (i.e., social structure, culture, history) and trying to understand social phenomena by collecting and analyzing empirical data.
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- Economic sociology is the study of the social causes and social effects of various economic phenomena.
- Economic sociology is the study of the social causes and social effects of various economic phenomena.
- This is distinguishable from the field of socioeconomics, which focuses on the social impact of very specific economic changes, such as the closing of a factory, market manipulation, or new policies that impact the economy of a very specific locale or population.
- Contemporary economic sociology emphasizes the social consequences of economic exchanges, the social meanings they involve, and the social interactions that they facilitate or obstruct.
- Some economic sociologists provide a social explanation to questions traditionally addressed by economists.
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- Social movement theories seek to explain how social movements form and develop.
- A variety of theories have attempted to explain how social movements develop.
- Mobilization occurs when people work together in order to enact social change, such as meeting with government officials in order to change a law or policy.
- This theory is subject to circular reasoning since it claims that social/structural strain is the underlying motivation of social movement activism, even though social movement activism is often the only indication that there was strain or deprivation.
- Motivational framing is when others are inspired to take action without an actual law or policy in place - such as making a suggestion about how to improve and appealing to people's morals and values.
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- Social epidemiology studies the social distribution and social determinants of health.
- It is the cornerstone of public health, and informs policy decisions and evidence-based medicine by identifying risk factors for disease and targets for preventive medicine.
- The book pioneered modern social research and served to distinguish social science from psychology and political philosophy.
- Social epidemiology may focus on individual-level measures, or on emergent social properties that have no correlation at the individual level.
- Social epidemiology overlaps with fields in the social sciences, such as medical anthropology, medical sociology, and medical geography.