State Social Policy.

Social security in modern Russia.

Unit 2.

VI.Верны ли данные высказывания.

1) "It's wrong to accept help from others; each family should be able to take care of its own problems."

2) "The government should see to it that every family makes a living."

3) "It's silly to pay for life insurance when you never see the results of the money you've spent."

4) "I would never work for a company that did not give me medical insurance and a free life insurance policy."

5) "The government is spending too much of our tax money on programs to help people who should be working rather than receiving public assistance."

Social policy is the substantiate system of purposes, directions and principles for the activity of power and managerial bodies in social sphere. State social policy is directed to the coordination of interests of classes, social groups, territorial communities, nationalities, to the regulation of social relations, the prevention and settlement of social contradictions and conflicts, the providing social order as a condition for the progressive development of society.

State social policy includes following functions:

- social security of population – providing guaranties of citizens’ rights established by the constitution;

- social support - a system aimed at the creation of conditions for social-economic growth and development;

- social aid – care about citizens who are not able to support normal living conditions themselves.

These functions of social policy complement each other. Depending on economic mechanism, one function can be used as system organizing. From the beginning of 1990, the socialistic model has been transforming into the model of market economy in Russia. By the opinion of reformers, it is a social market economy, which presupposes a principally another mechanism of social sphere functioning. In accordance with clause N7 of the Constitution, Russia is a social state. Its policy is directed towards the creation of conditions providing worthy life and free development. The constitution proclaims and guarantees the rights of life, freedom, inviolability of person and private life, sanctity of the home, private property, freedom of thinking, speech and faith, and participation in government. According to the constitution, everybody has the right for labor. Therefore, everyone has the right to dispose of his working abilities. Russians have the right of rest, social provision due to age, disease, disability, the rights for education, health protection, medical aid, safe ecology etc. Thus, in accordance with the accepted economy model in Russia, the functions of social protection are most important.

Social protection is a social activity, which includes the package of measures for the realization of social justice. State as one of its main subjects has to provide the every citizen’s right for worthy life in his country, to insure against risks in market conditions. Other subjects participate in such activity, too. For example, public organizations fulfill functions of defense and charity. Since many social problems have remained unsolved, people in transforming countries are in need of effective social protection, in the elaboration and realization of its social and economic mechanisms.

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