'Social Policy and Social Services: Welfare Policy

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'Social Policy and Social Services: Welfare Policy Patterns in a Heterogeneous Society' Yitzhak Berman

Social Policy

is concerned with changing and distribution of the components of living . It thus aims to bring about conditions different from those which would be the result of the unrestrained operation of market forces and of unrestrained human conduct in other respects. The essence of social policy is thus intervention based on two assumptions: that the common interest (a difficult to define concept) should in certain conditions prevail over that of individual and that, in certain respects, the judgment of the community is superior and therefore should override that of the individual.

Kaim-Caudle, Peter, 1988: Foreword; in: Lee, Peter Ching-Yung: Dimensions of Social Welfare Transition. Sino-British Perspectives; Taipei: Chu Liu Book Company: 5-9

Spatial Dimension

Space of social immediacy -(sub-) urban localities -Ethnic groups -families

SOCIAL SPACES OF SOCIAL POLICY Leading Actor Objectives

Local governance systems, limited by the dependency on central government and may be in conflict with … Establishing spaces for developing local/communal equality, empowerment National and Regional level National governments and contestants for power (parliament, civic organizations etc.) Coping with challenges of internal (national) contradictions, differences and diversity of interests Bi-and multi-lateral level Nation states and multinational enterprises Equity Adapted from Herrmann, P. 2009. Social Quality: Looking for a Global Social Policy Europaischer, Hochschulverlag

Chinese/Traditional

Time circular co-existence process-oriented go with the flow history and tradition

Patterns of Thinking Western

Time linear causality deadline-oriented efficiency future-oriented Performance group harmony and shared accomplishment qualitative and subjective people-oriented social concerns Performance individual performance accomplishment quantitative-objective task-oriented economic indicators

Social economic security

is the degree to which people have command over material and immaterial resources over time in the context of social relations.

These social relations are sustained within a set of multifaceted sources of socio-economic security called collective identities, i.e.

state, family, community and institutions

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CONDITIONAL FACTORS OF SOCIAL QUALITY

Socio-economic security

the extent to which people have sufficient resources over time - economic security - housing - health (social care) - education

Collective identities providing social welfare services State Community Family Economic security Housing Health Education

What are the policy implications of filial piety?