of members of a society by shaping the distribution of goods and resources and access to them. Social policy often seeks to alleviate precarity and wicked problems.

History

Social policy was first conceived as an academic subject in the 1940s by Richard Titmuss within the field of social administration in Britain. Titmuss's essay on the "Social Division of Welfare" (1955) laid the groundwork for social policy to

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