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SOCIAL POLICY

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A policy of for dealing with social issues

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("social policy" is a kind of...):

policy (a line of argument rationalizing the course of action of a government)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "social policy"):

apartheid (a social policy or racial segregation involving political and economic and legal discrimination against people who are not Whites; the former official policy in South Africa)

glasnost (a policy of the Soviet government allowing freer discussion of social problems)

social action (a social policy of reform (especially socioeconomic reform))

nativism (the policy of perpetuating native cultures (in opposition to acculturation))

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