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Define ‘social policy’. Evaluate the performance of social policy in modernisation of developing societies.

  • UPSC 2001
  • Social Change in Modern Society

Social policy is the body of principles and measures through which a state deliberately allocates welfare, regulates life chances and manages the social consequences of economic change. Richard Titmuss defined its field as the organised system of social services and the wider "social division of welfare"; T. H. Marshall placed it in the growth of…

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  • Defining social policy
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