Social policy takes a stand on the changes in society that have an impact on the preconditions of welfare. These changes are connected with basic societal issues concering social rights, power, social equity, equality and inequality. Economic and political ideologies and social structures have an impact on social policy. Social policy is interested in the relationship between people and their environment and nature. Ultimately, social policy is concerned with questions of human life, i.e., good life, and consequently, with questions of good society and a good world, as well as with social values and ethics.
Social policy is also practice.
In this system, the state is the most important actor practising social policy. The international economy requires that the labour force be flexible and adaptable. The impact of the European Union on the lives of the citizens of EU countries is significant. Internationalisation also increases the possibilities that people have. Social policy is interested not merely in national social issues , but also increasingly, in international phenomena of social policy.