A social, or socioeconomic, model, is the value system associated with the structure of a nation's political economy. It usually involves public policies that affect the welfare of a country's citizens in the framework of a market or mixed economy. There are no set rules that define a social model, only loose definitions characterized by certain attributes.
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“English literature is a kind of training in social ethics.... English trains you to handle a body of information in a way that is conducive to action.”
—Marilyn Butler (b. 1937)
“Research shows clearly that parents who have modeled nurturant, reassuring responses to infants’ fears and distress by soothing words and stroking gentleness have toddlers who already can stroke a crying child’s hair. Toddlers whose special adults model kindliness will even pick up a cookie dropped from a peer’s high chair and return it to the crying peer rather than eat it themselves!”
—Alice Sterling Honig (20th century)