Social Policy and Poverty
What do governments do to sort out poverty?
Welfare state
What is it?a social system based on the assumption by a political state of primary responsibility for the individual and social welfare of its citizens(Merriam-Webster)
Are you for or aginst? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYZkg0Z5oYI
3 MAIN POLITICAL PARTIES (England):http://www.youtube.com/webcameronuk?feature=relchannel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJgtewTHldQ&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/user/libdem?feature=results_main What social policies do they support?
4 Main Approaches
• The New Right• Social Democrats• Labour/New Labour• Marxists
Timeline: UK governments after WW2
1945-1970’s: State controls and• provides assistance through the UNIVERSAL MODEL OF
WELFARE 1979-1997 – the Conservatives come to power in 1979 and want
to reduce
state spending on health and welfare – they followed
the RESIDUAL MODEL OF WELFARE and promoted a mixed economy
of welfare provision using statutory, private and voluntary agencies. 1997 – 2010 – a Labour (or New Labour) government took office
in 1997 • and developed the ‘Third Way’ – state intervention increased
in some instances and
was reduced in other instances through the expanding use of private
and voluntary sector agencies. INSTITUTIONAL MODEL OF CARE 2010 - ???? – both the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats
come to power
in 2010, promoting mainly the Conservative policy of spending cuts and state they
want to support ‘an open society that gives fair chances to everyone’,
increasing social mobility.
Not really against, but…
The New Right (their approach is similar to Functionalism)
Why?……………………………………..……………………………………..………………………
For
Social Democrats (which party?): Social Policy Reforms are good because……………….………………………………………………..………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
For, but…
New Labour
in power: UK, 1997 - 2010
Hand up not hand out (do we know what it means?)………………………………………………………..………………………………………………………..………………………………………………………..
Against
MarxistsThey believe we should go further because……………………………………………………………….And they believe we should have …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………Did their (or similar as communists
modified Marxism) policies work in communist countries - the USSR, the People’s Republic of China)?........................................................
Political Spectrum
Marxists The Labour Party
The Conservative Party The Liberal Democratic Party
LEFT CENTRE RIGHT
Three things I have learned today:
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