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This document discusses social policy and its impact on families from different sociological perspectives. It provides examples of policies from the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, and China to show how governments can influence family life. Students are asked to research these policies and discuss their potential effects. The document also examines how the UK government intervenes in families through policies, comparing approaches between political groups like New Labour and the Coalition. Overall, the goal is for students to understand social policy and analyze perspectives on the family.
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The document discusses social policy approaches to income maintenance and poverty in the United States. It notes that while the US has the largest economy, it ranks poorly compared to other developed nations in measures of health, living standards, and poverty. There is an emphasis on individual responsibility and minimal government assistance in the US due to ideological beliefs. Government programs that do exist, like Social Security, are resistant to change and focus more on social insurance than means-tested aid. Welfare reform in 1996 aimed to change behaviors of the poor through work requirements and time limits on assistance, though its overall success in reducing poverty remains unclear.
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The document discusses several methods for measuring crime: police recorded crime statistics, victimization surveys, and self-reported offending surveys. It notes that police statistics can be unreliable because crimes may be misclassified or not recorded at all. Victimization surveys interview over 51,000 people annually and can find higher crime levels than police statistics, especially for sensitive crimes. However, all methods only provide information about crimes, not offenders. Self-reported surveys ask about illegal acts but respondents may lie, and only certain groups like students are surveyed, limiting representativeness.
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2) Cultural diversity accounts for differences between ethnic and religious groups' family structures.
3) Social class diversity influences family structure and child-rearing based on income differences.
4) Life-stage diversity means family structure depends on people's stages in the life cycle such as with newlyweds or retired couples.
5) Generational diversity exists as attitudes change over time between older and younger generations regarding issues like divorce and homosexuality.
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Running head JUVENILE DELINQUENCY POLICY .docx
Running head: JUVENILE DELINQUENCY POLICY
JUVENILE DELINQUENCY POLICY
Juvenile Delinquency Policy
Student's Name
Institutional Affiliation
Often policies aimed at improving the situation of certain conditions in the society are formulated, passed and made ready for implementation. However, challenges face the implementation phase of the policies. There are a number of challenges that may hinder the implementation of a certain policy. These range from physical, social, economic, environmental and economic factors. this paper will seek to exploit the cost factors that affect the implementation of the juvenile delinquency policy. These fall under the economic factors of the above-named factors. These include a measure of the benefits that are to be realized upon switching to the new policy.
Training Costs.
Implementation of any policy involves capacity building of individuals who are going to disseminate the information to different part of the nation. This includes carrying out training in different places so as to ensure that the public is sensitized on the importance of this particular policy of juvenile delinquency for our case. This may include training in the institutions and also community-based training all of which will require funds for facilitation.
Incorporations Cost
The implementation of this policy will involve the provision of education to children in order to mold them to the desirable state of behavior. There will be a need of taking even the children who do not have access to education to institutions by ensuring that education is free of charge to all. To ensure these, the government of the day is obliged to sponsor these programs hence will need to source funds for the program.
Program Sustenance Cost
Once a program to support this policy is started, it important to ensure that the program is kept going on. There should be a consideration of the ways to sustain the program through the provision of necessities like learning materials among other education materials.
Administrative Costs.
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Ensuring The Participation of Different Groups in This Policy.
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A description of the social problem you selected and any known causes or explanations for the problem
A description of the problem’s prevalence in society
A description of the specific population impacted by this social problem, if any. If the social problem you selected does affect a specific population, include an explanation of why that might be the case.
An explanation of the theories that support the problem and approaches scholars and policy analysts use to address the problem
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2. By increasing awareness of cultural differences and discrimination, as with research on disability that galvanized legislation.
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Topic 7 social policy
- 1. AS Sociology Topic 7 SOCIAL POLICY
- 2. Objectives for the topic Know ways in which social policy may affect families Understand different Sociological perspectives on social policy Analyse and assess perspectives, policies and there impact on the family
- 3. What is social Policy? Social Policies are the plans and actions of the government in relation to issues such as health, education, employment, crime and family life. Can you think of any examples? Have you all downloaded the BBC news app? Following @bsfcsociology?
- 4. These actions can have a profound impact on the family and its members Social policies are socially constructed Thinking Point… What do you think governments and countries base their policies on?
- 5. A comparative view of policy – Activity 1 In small groups… Use the ipads to find information on the following: Soviet Union Family Policy Nazi Family Policy China’s one child policy
- 6. Some starting points… http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/germany/wome nrev_print.shtml http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/11197594/What-is- Chinas-one-child-policy.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/geography/population/mana ging_population_rev3.shtml http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1926/07/the-russian-effort-to- abolish-marriage/306295/ You can also use the textbooks
- 7. You now need to share your research with the group… …Complete your summary sheet in the handout
- 8. Impact…. What would the impact of the policies be on the family and its members?
- 9. UK Family Policy How is the UK different? With a partner discuss and record all the ways in which the government intervene in family life Can you identify any specific policies that the government have put into place which directly affect family life? Family policy is heavily influenced by which government is in power at the time and therefore you must be current! Start by watching the news and reading the ‘families and education’ section on the BBC News APP!!
- 10. Sociological perspectives and Social/Family Policy Functionalism The New Right New Labour Feminism Marxism Use the textbooks to read about and make notes on your given topic Now move around and ‘teach’ each group your perspective.
- 11. The government and policy today Produce a timeline which identifies particular governments/primeministers and the policies they introduced in the last 15 years Now record how the policies reflect the governments political Ideologies and Sociological perspectives
- 12. Policies New Labour -Tax Credits (working and family) -Sure Start Centres -Childcare Vouchers -EMA -Free childcare for 3 yr olds (15 hours) -Tuition fees Coalition -Removal of EMA replaced with bursary for poorest students -Child benefit means tested for 16-19 -Shared Maternity leave (Lib Dem) -Replacement of multiple benefits with a universal system (currently being rolled out) -Free school meals for all pupils in KS1 (Lib Dem) -Increased tuition fees to up to 9k