A social policy is policy usually within a governmental or political setting, such as a welfare state and the study of social services (insert reference). In the US and Canada, topics such as: same- sex marriage, abortion, and recreational drugs are handled under social policy; whereas, in other nations such subjects are handled under health and domestic policy. The main focus of social policy is to answer human necessities and to advance general human welfare. This can be met by means of: education, healthcare, child protection, workers’ rights, among many other. Social policy varies all over the world, it isn’t uniform. How social policy in France or Japan may appear, isn’t representative of that of nations like Nepal or Yemen. Local culture plays a major role in the creation of social policy; for example, women in the US have always had the right to be able to obtain a driver’s license; whereas in Saudi Arabia, this wasn’t a possibility until 2019. Nations socially evolve at different rates; therefore, causing a world full of differences.
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Sociological Approaches to Social Problems 