social action

noun

1. individual or group behavior that involves interaction with other individuals or groups, especially organized action toward social reform.

Word History and Origins

Origin of social action¹

First recorded in 1850–55

Example Sentences

There is new leadership there, a focus on social action and a very involved prince.

From BBC

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

In unsettled times, cultural change can become focused into an ideological contest, in which ideologies exert a powerful, clearly articulated but more restricted basis for social action.

From Salon

They laud social actions of the past and recognize the advances toward equality that previous generations made, often at risk of life and limb.

From Seattle Times

A deeply rooted approach to investing and social action is taking its lumps.

From New York Times