1. Social Welfare
Social welfare is an encompassing and imprecise term, but most often it is defined in terms of organized activities or some other factor that suggests procedure and programs to answer to identified social problems or to ameliorate the well-being of those at risk. To define social welfare in terms of programs or problems alone, however, is to miss a larger and more enduring element. ... From a different perspective, Gilbert (1974) referred to social welfare as establishing the rules of the game: with the game being the system of distributing valued resources, such as money; jobs; housing; and e...
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