Social interventionism

Social interventionism

Social interventionism is an ideology which involves the intervention of a government or an organization in social affairs. [McClelland, J. S. 1996. "A History of Western Political Thought". Routledge. Pp. 481 [http://books.google.ca/books?id=dUb_r3Vcu-4C&pg=PA481&lpg=PA481&dq=%22social+interventionism%22&source=web&ots=FuQt2F1Vrz&sig=_5m5I7WKm82dsYRdowIG4t7q4aw&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result] ] Such policies can include provision of charity or social welfare as a means to alleviate social and economic problems of people facing financial difficulties; provision of health care; provision of education; provision of safety regulations for employment and products; delivery of food aid or recovery missions to regions or countries negatively affected by an event; adoption programs; etc.

Some social interventionist policies have been labelled by critics as social authoritarianism due to views that the policies violate individual freedom or human rights. Such policies include conscription; government sponsorship of birth control and abortion such as the People's Republic of China's One child policy or bans on abortion and birth control; bans on associations and organizations; forced sterilization programs; mandatory institutionalization of people with mental or physical disabilities; prohibition of substances or items; bans on homosexual relationships; segregation policies; state-sponsored discrimination or persecution of people based on age, cultural identity, ethnicity, gender, people with mental or physical disabilities, race, social position, political affiliation, religion, and/or sexual orientation. This criticism also arises from the use of social interventionism by authoritarian or totalitarian governments such as in the Soviet Union, [Hoffmann, David L. "Stalinist Values: The Cultural Norms of Soviet Modernity, 1917-1941". Cornell University Press. Pp. 7 [http://books.google.ca/books?id=z1dKz5rxeG8C&pg=PA7&dq=%22social+interventionism%22&sig=ACfU3U0dU3cEu-TALKh1GyrzhriUUS3vrQ] ] [Colton, Ethan Theodore. 1970. "Four Patterns of Revolution: Communist U.S.S.R., Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, New Deal America". Ayer Publishing. Pp. 56. [http://books.google.ca/books?id=DdF2klOCFBoC&pg=PA103&dq=%22social+intervention%22+communist+fascist+nazi&sig=ACfU3U2uU6x8cJmdYflLJkSo-Hezktqk9A] ] Fascist Italy, [Colton, Pp. 103. [http://books.google.ca/books?id=DdF2klOCFBoC&pg=PA103&dq=%22social+intervention%22+communist+fascist+nazi&sig=ACfU3U2uU6x8cJmdYflLJkSo-Hezktqk9A] ] and Nazi Germany [Colton. Pp. 158 [http://books.google.ca/books?id=DdF2klOCFBoC&pg=PA103&dq=%22social+intervention%22+communist+fascist+nazi&sig=ACfU3U2uU6x8cJmdYflLJkSo-Hezktqk9A#PPA158,M1] ]

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