social action
Community-driven change effort
Social action is organized effort to address social problems or bring about change in society.
The term spans everything from grassroots activism to institutional programs: The church organized social action around housing inequality.
In sociology, social action has a more technical meaning—any behavior oriented toward others, as distinct from purely reflexive or private acts.
- grassroots initiativesCommunity-led efforts for change
- boots on the groundMilitary presence in area
- mutual aidCooperative community support
- food driveOrganized donation of provisions
- activismDirect effort for reform
taking to the streets · intervention · community organizing · voter registration · civic engagement · raising awareness · solidarity · civil rights · peacebuilding · common good · economic justice · poverty alleviation · community service · volunteerism · march · uprising · picket · reform
- Catholic Actionlaity, lay leaders, Knights of Columbus, Pax Romana, parish councils
- sociologysocialization, stratification, norms, society, class
- Classical SociologyDurkheim, Marx, Weber, Engels, anomie
- social workcase notes, person-centered, fieldwork, community development, clinical practice
- Weberrationalization, Protestant ethic, iron cage, disenchantment, legitimacy
- Jewish continuityJewish identity, Jewish community, Jewish values, family traditions, holiday traditions
social actioninaction
Deliberate nonmovement
passivity · apathy · inactivity · indifference · complacency
social actionsocial conservatism
Ideology favoring established moral standards
quietism · conservatism · traditionalism · reaction · entrenchment
action, social, associate, association, sociable, antisocial, socially, dissociate, unsocial