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State significance of social policy in social development. Under what conditions a social policy fails to be effective in its performance?

  • UPSC 2006
  • Social Change in Modern Society

Social policy is deliberate state action to shape the distribution of welfare, life chances and social risk. Richard Titmuss treated it as the organised redistribution of command over resources; T. H. Marshall (Citizenship and Social Class, 1950) gave it a sharper meaning — the social rights that complete civil and political citizenship. Its significance lies…

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  • Significance for social development
  • Conditions under which social policy fails
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