Abstract:

Although as a concept social state is widely accepted, the same acceptance is not emerged when the policies aiming at making the concept operational. It seems that many social problems arrived by rising neo-liberal policies which is based on the questioning the social state, has been bringing about the social state discussions to be set on the agenda again. In this process, the organizations like the UN and ILO have been developing new approaches against the social problems. National and international trade unions movement draws the attention to social problems. Social movements coming together across the world set the principles for a “social world” against the neo-liberal model by claiming “another world is possible”. Social problems have been observed even by the IMF and WB. There are reflections of the problems faced at global scale. It is observed thet social state enshreineden in the Constitution of Turkey encounters with several problems in practise. As far as the social state is analysied from the issues of unemployment, poverty, income distrubition, social security, woman workforce participation, trade unions and social dialogue in Turkey. It is seen that some concrete steps for the sake of social state should be taken, significant roles are to be played by social partners in social policies procesess. In this connection, the subject of this study is analysed under the sub-titles of “Neo-liberalism: Modelling Against the Social State”, “Social Problems Reminding the Social State Again”, “Social Forums: Formations of Pressures for “Social World”, “Social Forums: The Questioning the Neoliberalism for a Social World”, “Turkey searches its Social Model” and “an Evalution”.

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