social policy

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social policy - a policy of for dealing with social issues policy - a line of argument rationalizing the course of action of a government; "they debated the policy or impolicy of the proposed legislation" 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)