ABSTRACT
The study of social administration is fundamentally the study of social policy, how it came to be in the developed communities of Western society, how it grew and how it succeeded in achieving the ends which it set out to achieve. Western society has been specified deliberately, for though something which can be called social policy is present in most communities, what we understand by the phrase is conditioned by the society in which we live. Within the framework of our own society there are, however, factors which· must be present before social policy can come into being and which are, in a way, prerequisite to the development of policy.
