Social policy as an instrument of social justice is nowadays in the focus of attention
of scientists, politicians, economists and experts on strategies for the economic
and technological development of society. Today, there is not a single modern
society that is giving up the concept of social justice as one of its cornerstones.
Naturally, different societies and different policies, depending on a whole series of
social factors, understand the content and meaning of social justice in different
ways, while the material possibilities and character of social organisation determine
its objective achievements. Social justice today, just like throughout the entire history
of humankind, has various meanings, is complex and accessible to a different
degree. Social policy is a group of functionally-interconnected institutions and instruments
through which social justice is exercised. This question of social justice
– that is, of social policy – is often being opened in a specific and often highly
conflicting way in transition countries, including Serbia.