Political Ideologies and Social Welfare

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mimi Abramovitz
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Role Of Government ◽  
Welfare Policies ◽  
Political Ideologies ◽  
General Welfare ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Traditions ◽  
And Gender

Political ideologies shape public policy debates as well as the social policy strategies developed to address social problems. The clashes among these long-standing political traditions—conservatism, liberalism, radicalism—reflect fundamental and often irreconcilable differences regarding social, economic, and political life. Ideology also shapes theories of racial and gender inequality. These ideological perspectives and theories are compared for their views on several core issues that underpin social welfare provision, including human nature, need, the general welfare, social problems, and the role of government. The resulting distinctions provide social workers with a framework to more effectively assess contemporary social welfare policies.

3. Punishment and welfare: social problems and social structures

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Garland
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Literature ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
The Political ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Welfare Policies ◽  
The Social

This chapter examines the complex relationship between ‘punishment’ and ‘welfare.’ It traces the various ways in which penal systems are influenced by, and interact with, broader systems of social welfare and how these linked institutions function as modes of social control and class control. Following a critical review of the historical and comparative literature—and associated questions of data and method—it discusses how penal and welfare policies relate to the social problems they purport to address and to the political and socio-economic structures within which they operate. ‘Penal-welfarist’ and ‘welfarist’ practices are defined and differentiated, some common elements of practices of punishing and assisting are identified, and the fundamentals of ‘the welfare state’ and its recent neoliberal history are explained.

scholarly journals Implikasi dan Arah Kebijakan Pemberian Anggaran APBN/APBD Untuk Operasional Pengelola Zakat dalam Meningkatkan Fungsi Pemerintah

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-28
Author(s):  
Cucu Solihah
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
State Development ◽  
Role Of Government ◽  
Regional Budget ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government

The commitment in building Indonesia as a prosperous country gives consequence to the role of government in prospering the community. It is conducted by empowering the programs having potency of financial sources for developing this state. Beside the tax as the financial source of state development, the government enforces the policy of zakat management.  The policy is the act number 23 in 2011 concerning zakat management in which the fund derives from the national / regional budget. In this case, the national or regional zakat council manages the zakat management. It is expected, it can help the process of state development and be a media in improving the social welfare as one of the government’s roles

The Social Welfare Response to Social Problems: A Classroom Demonstration

1985 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 243
Author(s):  
Louis Corsino
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
The Social

scholarly journals Social Welfare: A Synthetic Analysis from the Perspective of the Main Schools of Economic Thought

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 101-115
Author(s):  
Stanislav Percic
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
Standard Of Living ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
General Welfare ◽  
The Social ◽  
True Meaning ◽  
Solid Foundation ◽  
Wealth Building ◽  
Historical Past

The analysis of the meaning of the social welfare is a topic of great interest for researchers, as well as for policy makers. While some researchers or economists believe that social welfare is limited to the standard of living of the society, others describe it as a material and spiritual welfare of the society and make a distinction between the social welfare of those in need of a special attention from society and general welfare of the whole society. In order to understand the true meaning of the concept of social welfare, this research focuses on an incursion into the historical past of the economic thought. The aim of the present study is to analyse the social welfare or other terms related to welfare from the perspective of the main schools of economic thought. The research reveals that the representatives of the largest schools of economic thought have not overlooked terms such as prosperity, happiness, satisfaction, usefulness, wealth, building a solid foundation to what we know today as social welfare.

Tamil Nadu Politics and Tamil Cinema: A Symbiotic Relationship?

2021 ◽  
pp. 239386172110541
Author(s):  
Selvaraj Velayutham ◽  
Vijay Devadas
Keyword(s):  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Symbiotic Relationship ◽  
Critical Survey ◽  
Political Ideologies ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Everyday Politics ◽  
Tamil Cinema ◽  
And Gender

From the second-half of the twentieth century, a nascent Tamil cinema became increasingly influential in Tamil society and more prominent in political life. The Dravidar Kazhagam, founded by Periyar E. V. Ramasamy in 1944, morphed into the DMK and AIADMK, two dominant state political parties in Tamil Nadu. Through the medium of film, some of its leading lights, C. N. Annadurai, M. Karunanidhi, M. G. Ramachandran and Jayalalitha, cultivated cinema audiences and the voting public in the political ideologies of the Dravidian movement and subsequently became Chief Ministers of Tamil Nadu. The symbiotic relationship between politics and Tamil cinema has meant that political and social commentaries and the assertion of Tamil nationalistic ideas was commonplace in Tamil films. In recent years, Tamil cinema has become the vehicle for raising a wide range of concerns ranging from caste, class and gender and state/nation politics, marking a shift that focusses on everyday politics in the state. In this article, we present a critical survey of the role of Tamil cinema in disseminating particular realities and politics of identity that speak to an essentialised notion of Tamil cultural and linguistic identity, the concomitant disavowal of broader conceptions of Indian-ness or belonging to the Indian nation, as well as the use of cinema to address everyday politics in the State.

scholarly journals Dimensions of globalisation and social welfare policies in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Marcelo Santos ◽  
Marta Simões
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
Social Expenditure ◽  
Welfare Policies ◽  
Related Family ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Active Labour ◽  
The Social ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
Generalised Method Of Moments ◽  
Positive Effect

Abstract Which dimensions of globalisation have an impact on social expenditure? How do different social welfare policies react to globalisation? This paper addresses these questions focusing on 36 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries over the period 1990–2015 and applying system Generalised Method of Moments to deal with endogeneity. We consider different dimensions of globalisation, economic, social and political, and their potential differentiated impacts on variegated social welfare policies. According to our findings, all the dimensions of globalisation have a positive effect on total social expenditure and on most of its components, although the influence is not statistically significant for social globalisation. The social welfare policies affected by globalisation are old age pensions, incapacity related, family and unemployment benefits and active labour market policies. These results can shed additional light on social and economic outcomes of globalisation such as poverty, inequality, long run growth and economic recovery.

scholarly journals LA REGULACIÓN SOCIOPOLÍTICA EN LA COYUNTURA: focalización y remercantilización

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 327
Author(s):  
José Pablo Bentura
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Welfare Policies ◽  
Social Question ◽  
The Social ◽  
Bolsa Familia ◽  
Full Structure ◽  
America Latina

Texto que resulta de análisis referentes al Proyecto ”Estudo Comparado - Bolsa Família (Brasil), Asignación Familiar del Plan de Equidad (Uruguay), Asignación Universal por Hijo (Argentina)”. Tiene como soporte investigación teórica y documental. Objetiva problematizar la configuración actual de los programas sociales en América Latina y Caribe, en su procesualidad socio-histórica y como parte de una totalidad estructural. Concluye que, de verdad, la crisis de los años setenta desencadenó un proceso regresivo de ruptura unilateral del pacto inter-clases por el capital, lo que se refleja, en el momento presente, en la pérdida de su eficacia - práctica y simbólica - de que los Estados Nacionales operen sobre la cuestión social con el propósito de garantizar políticas de bienestar social.Palabras-clave: Focalización, Mercado, Pobreza, Políticas sociales, Trabajo.SOCIOPOLITICAL REGULARIZATION IN CONJUCTURE: focusing and remarketing Abstract: paper that is a result of analysis refering to the project “Comparative study - Bolsa Familia (Brazil), Asignación Familiar del Plan de Equidad (Uruguay) Asignación Universal por Hijo (Argentina) ” and its part in a full structure. Concludes that, in truth, the crisis in the seventies unleashed a process that reflects the unilateral rupture of the interclass capital pact, losing its practical and symbolic efficiency – of the National States operate on the social question in order to ensure social welfare policies. Key words: Focalización, Mercado, Pobreza, Políticas sociales, Trabajo.

Social Welfare Policy and Living Standards between the Wars

2018 ◽  
pp. 217-259
Author(s):  
George R. Boyer
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Disability Insurance ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Social Welfare Policy ◽  
Welfare Policies ◽  
Social Surveys ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Social

This chapter describes the interwar expansion of social welfare policies and their role in alleviating economic insecurity in an era of unprecedented unemployment. The social security system established before the war and extended in the 1920s consisted of several independently administered programs—unemployment insurance, sickness and disability insurance, old age pensions, widows' and orphans' insurance, and the Poor Law. This safety net of many colors proved to be quite successful in alleviating poverty and maintaining the well-being of working-class households. The important role played by the safety net is clearly shown in the social surveys undertaken in the 1930s—between one-third and one-half of all working-class families surveyed received social income of some form. While the condition of the working class would have been considerably worse without the safety net, it contained many holes, which led to calls for a restructuring of social policy.

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