Definition of Social Management

The concept of management is generally projected in the business environment and we speak of commercial management or human resource management. However, in the sphere of society there is also social management, a concept coined in recent years to refer to a specific academic training with a clear social projection, seeking to solve problems such as marginality.

Social management studies

This type of university training is known by several terms, being that of planning and social management the most widespread and can be carried out in its undergraduate or graduate modality.

These studies are framed in the field of social services typical of the public administration and as a response to the complex social reality with issues related to marginalization, exclusion, sustainability or equality of opportunities.

As for the study plans, they contain areas such as social management, planning and social programming, social spending, the sustainability of the welfare state and public policies, among other

The main keys in social management

Regardless of the specific areas and their contents, social management studies must be understood within a complex framework in which the dimension interacts politics, economic and social of the human being.

Effective social management implies knowing the recognized social rights and the public system that administers them.

Educational policies, pensions and the labor reality are also essential aspects of social management

From the point of view of methodology These studies are associated with a whole series of indicators that make it possible to assess poverty, social vulnerability or measure the material and non-material needs of the citizenship.

A social manager will have to develop and analyze social projects in order to transform some aspect of reality. To do this, it will be necessary to address the issue of financing and social spending and, at the same time, manage the main parameters of the sociology.

The figure of the social manager should not be understood as a bureaucratic profession or with a merely theoretical approach, since the objective of its profession is steeped in ethical values ​​such as social justice, commitment to the most disadvantaged and the fight against inequalities.

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