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Sociology and Social Policy - Practicing Sociology (week 4)
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Notes on week 4 of the module Practicing Sociology. This is a Sociology degree module. Topics covered: What is social policy? How does it get made (looking at Universal Credit as an example)? What is evidence-based policy making? What is ideology-based policy making? Launch of the Universal Credit,...

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  • April 9, 2021
  • 4
  • 2020/2021
  • Class notes
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  • Week 4 – sociology and social policy

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  • sociology
  • practicing sociology
  • poverty
  • poverty in the uk
  • social policy
  • policy making
  • universal credit
  • white paper
  • think tank
  • welfare reform bill
  • select committee
  • ideology
  • evidenced based policy making

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Module: Practicing Sociology


Week 4 – Sociology and Social Policy


Contents
 What is social policy?
 How does it get made?
 What is ‘evidence based policy making’?
 Applied to Universal Credit – we are looking at this area specifically as we are
looking at the phenomena of poverty
 To think what the relationship between sociology and social policy is


What is social policy?
 Something that the government does

 It’s a vague term – there’s a range of different types of documents that makes up
a social policy

 Social policy is government policy made to address social issues

 Refer to sociological dictionaries to get a definition of the terms used in sociology

 They are not detailed plans of action

 Produced by a decision-making body

 May not have specific plans and targets but they may come out of it

 We are looking primarily at welfare policies


How does social policy get made? Looking at Universal Credit as an example
 It has been argued that the Universal Credit has made matters worse
 The welfare system has gotten more complicated
 Lots of people not getting what they were supposed to get
 UC was intended to solve the problems in the old system
 UC was launched in 2010
 UC has been severely criticised in the press – has been more expensive than
anticipated and the impact it has had on people.
 UC has been unpopular


Launching Universal Credit

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