The Bases for Multifunctional Social Policy

Abstract

On the basis of the conducted sociological research the article provides the arguments for the implementation of compensatory measures directed at support of the most vulnerable layers of the population as well as stimulating measures directed at organization of these population groups access to resources which may put them at a higher level of development (access to education, employment, social services). The tasks of social policy facing economic challenges are reviewed in the article. The authors attribute the relevance of stimulating measures of social policy to the dynamics of social attitudes of different population groups, as well as the degree of their being affected by the crisis, as long as these factors influence the creation of social and economic strategies that may have a passive waiting or active character. In its turn the character of population strategies determines the degree of influence on the social policy called to reduce the negative effects of the crisis and to abrupt worsening of the socio-economic situation of any social group.