social action

American  

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of social action

First recorded in 1850–55

Example Sentences

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

From BBC • Oct. 2, 2025

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 • Sep. 29, 2024

“We don’t want to be silenced as Jews,” said Rich Weinberg, chair of the social action committee for Dor Hadash.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 22, 2023

“It will be very important that we really develop social action through music,” he said.

From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2023

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