Social policy



         


In politics, social policies are those which regulate and govern human behavior in areas such as sexuality and general morality.

Social policies are in contrast to other, more traditional forms of political policy, such as foreign policy and economic policy.

In the modern-day, social policies usually deal with the following issues:

Social policy is often heavily inspired by religion and the religious beliefs of politicians. Political conservatives as a whole generally favor a more traditionalist approach to social policy than political liberals.





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