Question How did power in the UK's social democratic state shift in the 1950s? What do you understand by the statement 'I'm alright Jack'?

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Carol Youssef Amineddine

Arab Open University

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Question  How did power in the UK’s social democratic state shift in the 1950s? What do you understand by the statement ‘I’m alright Jack’?

With the beginning of life it was obvious that mankind was initiating on remarkable journeys towards freedom and independence. Such journeys were translated through revolutions, parties, theories and sometime wars, in which individuals recruited to achieve their goals. The socialist world evident a rapid expansion and changes that has cultivated through years. Although the word today is not presented in consequence of any of these , but the world still remember those old days and their affects on the world today’s in addition to applying some of their theories , believers or ways . Full employment and social democracy for instance are two of the ways sociologist always tried to achieve to reduce unemployment, provide secure income, and create an equal society in order to order the lines of individuals.

   Social democracy is an economic policy in which all individuals in the society are equal regardless their state, power, color, religion … etc. This democracy was a provision taken to secure the development alteration and variation occurring in the society thought democratic means by reducing poverty and unemployment. The social democratic state has passed through a lot of steps and shifts of policies, theories and laws before it succeed to settle. A large mass of production, flexibility in work and extensive laws and systems were some of the solutions enabling individuals to work in more than one job and so raise their income. Re-distributing wealth among poor people was a step to diminish indigence by raising taxes. Social Democracy’s goal is to achieve a peaceful world where freedom, justice, and solidarity are enhanced and through which individual can live a meaningful life with the full development of his or her personality and talents and with the guarantee of human and civil rights in a democratic framework of society. Social democracy aimed to provide universal rights of access to equal standards of health care, family income support, comprehensive social insurance (including pensions), public housing and education.

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    Democracy which was born in the 5th century BC Athens is a government power and a civic responsibility that protects human freedom. This power is exercised in either direct and/or indirect way to integrate its important principles and roles of the social life.

   The democratic state was shaped through many policies presented in the Golden Age of Capitalism which was affiliated by Keynesian demand management that reflected through the theories a lot about democracy.  The Golden age of capitalism represents the period of time from the early 1950s to the mid 1970s.Keynesian demand management was ...

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