Social Policy/Social Action

1990 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 96-97
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Action

Thinking about Religious Welfare and Rethinking Social Policy in the British Context

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 613-624 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rana Jawad
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Welfare Provision ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
Ways Of Being

The role of religion in social welfare provision, and more broadly in shaping the development of state social policy in the UK, has become an issue of increasing prominence in the last decade raising both new challenges and opportunities. This article brings together new and existing research in the field of religion and social action/welfare in the British context to present a preliminary discussion of how and why religion, as a source of social identity and moral values, matters for social policy. The key argument is that religious welfare provision goes beyond the mixed economy of welfare paradigm and has the capacity to challenge the Utilitarian underpinnings of mainstream social policy thinking by giving more relative importance to ethical issues such as self-knowledge and morality, in addition to the more conventional concepts of wellbeing or happiness. The article proposes the concept of ways of being in order to bring together these moral ideational factors that underpin social welfare.

Touzel, Bessie

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marjorie Johnstone
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Definition Of

Bessie Touzel (1904–1997) left her mark on the local, provincial, and national levels in Canadian social services. Through her visionary development of concrete strategies for developing social policy, and establishing equitable welfare standards, she contributed lasting blueprints for social action and a re-definition of social responsibility.

scholarly journals Política social para la infancia en escenarios de violencia: el caso del FANVI en Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, 2011-2014

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (69) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lina María Aguirre Rodríguez ◽  
Ignacio Camargo González
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Organized Crime ◽  
Ciudad Juarez ◽  
Biological Mothers ◽  
Custody Of Children ◽  
Legal Custody ◽  
Victims Of Crime ◽  
Evaluation Of Public Policies

El objetivo de este artículo es comprender, desde la perspectiva del actor, la implementación del fideicomiso Fondo de Atención para los Niños y Niñas, Hijos de las Víctimas de la Lucha Contra el Crimen. Se utilizó el enfoque de la teoría fundamentada, para entrevistar a madres (viudas) y abuelas de los niños incluidos o marginados de esta política. Los resultados principales fueron que se obstaculizó y se excluyó a muchos niños que tenían derecho a recibir la ayuda del programa, debido a disposiciones informales de los funcionarios públicos; que las abuelas y las madres biológicas tuvieron que enfrentar el dilema de mantener o ceder la custodia legal de los niños y que los medios masivos de comunicación lucraron con el dolor de estas familias y, de manera subsidiaria, visibilizaron las deficiencias de la implementación de este programa en un contexto de violencia estructural y criminal.Palabras clave: evaluación de políticas públicas; programas de acción social; prevención del delito; teoría fundamentada; huérfanos; víctimas de delitos; crimen organizado; delitos con violencia; error de exclusión; Ciudad Juárez. Social policy for children in scenes of violence: the case of fanvi in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, 2011-2014Abstract: the objective of this article is to understand, from the perspective of the actor, the implementation of a trust called Fund for the Care of Boys and Girls, Children of the Victims of the Fight against Crime (fanvi, acronym in Spanish). Using the approach of grounded theory, unstructured interviews with mothers (widows) and grandmothers of the children included or marginalized in this policy were conducted. The main results were: many children who were eligible for program assistance were excluded due to informal arrangements of civil servants; grandmothers and biological mothers had to face the dilemma of maintaining or transferring legal custody of children; and the mass media profited from the pain of these families and, secondarily, they exhibited deficiencies when implementing this program in a context of structural and criminal violence.Key words: evaluation of public policies; social action programs; crime prevention; grounded theory; orphans; victims of crime; organized crime; violent crime; exclusion error; Ciudad Juarez.

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