social action
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of social action
First recorded in 1850–55
Example Sentences
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Public-society benefit organizations—civil rights, social action, and advocacy groups—gained 8.7%.
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
This brain-wide pattern signaled that a social action was about to occur and could be used to predict the behavior before it happened.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 2, 2026
"Chris is very into social action through music," says Dudamel.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2025
As Stuart Hall has insisted, culture and, by extension, education “is a critical site of social action and intervention, where power relations are both established and potentially unsettled.”
From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2025
It would be better to wait until he had visited the factory and seen what possibilities for social action there were there.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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