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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

What is social policy and its relevance to social development? Under what circumstances social policy becomes a hindrance in social development?

  • UPSC 1994
  • Social Change in Modern Society

Social policy is purposive state intervention in the distribution of welfare, opportunity and social risk — in T. H. Marshall's sense, the institutional form of social citizenship. Because it is purposive, it is also a social fact with consequences its authors did not intend, and those consequences can run against social development itself.

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  • Relevance to social development
  • When social policy becomes a hindrance
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