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social action
noun
- individual or group behavior that involves interaction with other individuals or groups, especially organized action toward social reform.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of social action1
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Example Sentences
Concerted social action to halt the erosion of reproductive rights is also vital.
Everything in this model works because of social action, because one strategy imposes constraints on the whole rest of the society, and then the society changes.
World changes, as evidenced by events like the Arab Spring, are increasingly driven by social action.
Even when Americans are spurred to social action by a major disaster, interest wanes relatively quickly.
Barry Schwartz, a professor of social theory and social action at Swarthmore College, talked about a new framework for morality.
For, in brief, the position would really amount to a complete exclusion of the moral element from all social action.
This joint or social action is dictated by their common interest in pastures and herds.
It is right and virtuous to fight sensuality in personal character and social action.
Only organic social action could get anywhere or accomplish anything worth while.
He found that the social action in every part of the island was regulated and assisted by this process.
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