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This is a 6 page paper that provides an overview of social welfare. Social, economic, political, and historical elements of policy are examined. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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themselves due to handicaps such as dire poverty, or physical or mental disabilities. However, characterizing the nature of these social welfare policies is difficult because one must weigh a number
of factors involved in their development, including historical, social, economic, and political issues. When analyzing policy, often the key factor that must be considered is the historical context in which
the policy was created. When one speaks of contemporary policy, this can seem deceptively easy, because the historical context seems close at hand. For instance, if one were examining contemporary
policies regarding welfare such as tax breaks for the poor and lower middle class, one could look at the rise of social awareness of income inequality following the bank-driven market
crash of the late 2000s. However, this would not necessarily deliver the whole picture. A full analysis of the historical aspects of a policy include both the manifest goals of
a program (what the program seems to state that its intended goal is) and its latent function (what the program actually does in reality) (Popple & Leighninger, 2012). For instance,
a common trope in social welfare has been the notion that people were more charitable and considerate in ages past, because of the existence of social welfare policies such as
richer households taking in poor paupers incapable of sustaining themselves financially. An actual analysis of the historical issues surrounding the policy reveal, however, that this was done less out of
altruism and more because states issued stipend payouts to households that were willing to take in paupers. Consequently, whenever one analyses the historical significance of a policy, one must generally
weigh many pieces of evidence against one another, and consider key elements of the sources themselves: for instance, the authenticity of the source, when it was written (either contemporaneously with
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