Social policy aims to meet human needs for security, education, work, health and wellbeing. There are various sociological perspectives on the development of individuals and society, including nature (biological factors), nurture (environmental influences), and culture (shared values and practices). Societies establish norms, values, and social control mechanisms like sanctions to regulate behavior and maintain social order and cohesion through the socialization process. Statuses, roles, and social structures provide context for understanding human behavior within society from different theoretical viewpoints.
Social policy aims to meet human needs for security, education, work, health and wellbeing. There are various sociological perspectives on the development of individuals and society, including nature (biological factors), nurture (environmental influences), and culture (shared values and practices). Societies establish norms, values, and social control mechanisms like sanctions to regulate behavior and maintain social order and cohesion through the socialization process. Statuses, roles, and social structures provide context for understanding human behavior within society from different theoretical viewpoints.
Social policy aims to meet human needs for security, education, work, health and wellbeing. There are various sociological perspectives on the development of individuals and society, including nature (biological factors), nurture (environmental influences), and culture (shared values and practices). Societies establish norms, values, and social control mechanisms like sanctions to regulate behavior and maintain social order and cohesion through the socialization process. Statuses, roles, and social structures provide context for understanding human behavior within society from different theoretical viewpoints.
Social policy - concerned with the ways societies across the world meet human needs for security,
education, work, health and wellbeing.
Nature - view that behaviour and human development is the product of biological factors. Nurture - environmental influences that contribute to the development of an individual/ Culture - consists of the values, beliefs, systems of language, communication, and practices that people share in common and that can be used to define them as a collective. Norms - rules or expectations that are socially enforced. Values - a set of principles that are morally acceptable by society. Sanctions - mechanisms of social control, positive or negative Social control - societal and political mechanisms that regulate individual and group behaviour to gain conformity and compliance to the rules of a given society, state, or social group. Subcultures - a group of people with a culture that differentiates themselves from the larger culture to which they belong. Socialisation - the process through which individuals learn the norms and values of society, leading to social cohesion and a functional society. Primary socialisation - the period early in a person's life during which they initially learn and build themselves through experiences and interactions with family. Secondary socialisation - when a child learns the values, beliefs and attitudes of their culture through those outside of the family, such as teachers, friends and the media. Status - a rank or position that someone holds. Role - the behaviour expected of an individual who occupies a given social position or status. Achieved status - a social position that a person can acquire based on merit and is earned or chosen. Ascribed status - the social status of a person that is assigned at birth or assumed involuntarily later in life. Structural view - the school of thought that human behaviour must be understood in the context of the social system – or structure – in which they exist. Social action view - a critical theory that holds that society is a construction of interactions and meanings given to it by its members. Functionalist - a theory that views society as a complex but orderly and stable system with interconnected structures and functions or social patterns that operate to meet the needs of individuals in a society. Marxist - a key conflict theory that believes capitalist society is based on inequalities between the bourgeoisie (ruling capitalist class) and the proletariat (working class). Feminist - the belief that women and men should have equal opportunities in economic, political, and social life. Postmodernist - an approach that attempts to define how society has progressed to an era beyond modernity. Research methods - an outline of the tools, techniques, and procedures used within a research study to gather data, analyse it, and interpret it.