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  • Social Policy

    Social Policy (in the Human Development Area) In this context, Social Policy means: legislative, institutional, budgetary support to achieve objectives in the field of human welfare, to protect the interests of socially vulnerable layers of such socially important areas as health, education, […]

  • Social Policy

    Social Policy (in the Human Development Area) In this context, Social Policy means: legislative, institutional, budgetary support to achieve objectives in the field of human welfare, to protect the interests of socially vulnerable layers of such socially important areas as health, education, […]

  • Medical Institution

    Hierarchical Display of Medical institution Social Questions > Health > Health policy > Health service Medical institution Concept of Medical institution See the dictionary definition of Medical institution. Characteristics of Medical institution [rtbs name=”xxx-xxx”] Resources Translation […]

  • Social Services

    Social Services Related Fields Related topics include: Social Service Find this subject in this World legal encyclopedia. Social Work Find this subject in this World legal encyclopedia. Social Worker Find this subject in this World legal encyclopedia. Resources See Also Social Service Social […]

  • Psychiatric Institution

    Hierarchical Display of Psychiatric institution Social Questions > Health > Health policy > Health serviceSocial Questions > Health > Medical science > Medicine > Medical specialisation > Psychiatry Psychiatric institution Concept of Psychiatric institution See the dictionary definition of […]

  • SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

    SOCIAL MOVEMENTS Network-configured collectivities that seek to promote or resist political and/or cultural change on the basis of shared group identity. As Stanford Lyman (1995:397) has observed, “In virtually all their various manifestations in the United States, social movements have proclaimed a salvational message, each has sought to cure the soul of either the nation,…

  • SOCIAL INTEGRATION

    SOCIAL INTEGRATION Referring primarily to how the parts of a society operate as a whole, the notion of integration has a long sociological pedigree, but one fraught with imprecision. Social integration generally refers to the way shared cultural goods receive normative expression, and also to the functional interdependence of the parts of a social system…

  • Retirement Social Security Law

    Introduction This entry provides an overview of the legal framework of retirement social security law, with a description of the most significant features of retirement social security law at international level. Related Work and Conclusions Resources See Also References (Papers) The […]

  • Retirement Social Security Law

    Introduction This entry provides an overview of the legal framework of retirement social security law, with a description of the most significant features of retirement social security law at international level. Related Work and Conclusions Resources See Also References (Papers) The […]

  • Social Services Contracting

    Literature Review on Social Services: Contracting In the Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, [1] Nancy McCarthy Snyder offers the following summary about the topic of Social Services: Contracting: This entry addresses the issues associated with growth in government […]

  • Welfare Institution

    Resources See Also Social Service Social Work Social Worker

  • Brookings Institution

    Brookings Institution in relation with International Trade In the context of trade organizations, Christopher Mark (1993) provided the following definition of Brookings Institution: An independent research organization, founded in 1927, specializing in economics, government, foreign policy, […]

  • Social Utility of Property

    Social Utility of Property Social Utility of Property in 1889 The following information about Property is from the Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and the Political History of the United States by the Best American and European Writers: “What is just always useful: Property has such a character of social utility that society could…

  • History of Social Darwinism

    History of Social Darwinism Origins Social Darwinism originated in Britain during the second half of the 19th century. Darwin did not address human evolution in his most famous study, On the Origin of Species (1859), which focused on the evolution of plants and animals. He applied his theories of natural selection specifically to people in…

  • Socialist Legal Systems

    Socialist Legal Systems Socialist law is the legal system used in most Communist states. It is based on the civil law system and Marxist-Leninist ideology. During the cold war period, it was incorporated into the legal systems of the Soviet Union and its former satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe. These systems were built…