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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“What people don’t realize is that intimacy has its conventions as well as ordinary social intercourse. There are three cardinal rules—don’t take somebody else’s boyfriend unless you’ve been specifically invited to do so, don’t take a drink without being asked, and keep a scrupulous accounting in financial matters.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)
“The striking point about our model family is not simply the compete-compete, consume-consume style of life it urges us to follow.... The striking point, in the face of all the propaganda, is how few Americans actually live this way.”
—Louise Kapp Howe (b. 1934)