The cooperative movement, which has recently been discussed frequently on international and national platforms and has managed to re-emerge on the agenda after a long absence, is being recalled in terms of its place and importance within the discipline of social policy. Although the idea of cooperatives is presented mainly as a branch of business administration in universities, it plays a vital role in ensuring socio-economic justice with its perspective that prioritizes social development, its stance against monopolization in all areas, and its principles that oppose the exploitation of large segments of the population within cooperatives. These roles make the cooperative movement an integral part of the social policy discipline. In the 1970s, with the weakening of the welfare state and the growth of neo-liberal economic discourses, the idea of cooperatives began to reappear on the agenda in the face of the socio-economic destruction caused by the local and global dispossession, precarization, and proletarianization of social groups. From this perspective, cooperative movements, which can be seen as an antithesis to the social destruction caused by neo-liberalism, are trying to build new social strategies and class-based networks of relations with the lessons they have learned from the experiences they have accumulated since their development in the 19th century. This study aims to understand cooperatives concerning the discipline of social policy and to deepen the debate on tracing an ideal cooperative movement.