social action
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of social action
First recorded in 1850–55
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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
There is new leadership there, a focus on social action and a very involved prince.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 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
When 1 am once again whole, I shall visit those factory people; I have deep and abiding convictions concerning social action.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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