Conceptual framework of social policy development: initial period

Abstract

This article examines conceptual fundamentals of social policy, which have evolved as an independent field of research in a framework of economic, sociological thought and philosophical concepts development since nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Highlighting the importance of social policy economists of nineteenth and twentieth centuries developed the model of social market economy and welfare state. Within these models, social policy is considered to be one of the important part of government policy aimed at national development and providing social welfare.

Keywords

• social policy
• social and welfare state
• government
• business
• theory of social policy
• social market economy
• Lorenz von Stein
• Ludwig Wilhelm Erhard
• Gosta Esping-Andersen