week13: Social Action

What is Social Action?  

As can be understood from the name itself, there are three fundamental points in the concept: first the existence of social action, then those who do the action and third those who are expected to benefit from the action. 

Social action is described as an individual’s, group’s, or community’s effort within the framework of social philosophy and practices that aim at achieving social progress to modify social policies to improve social legislation, health and welfare services. From this description, we can understand that social action is an active, conscious, well thought effort.   

This means any concerned individual, group or the community itself may involve in the task and process of social action to help other individuals, and groups who are facing a certain social problem or for whom a positive social change is necessary. A community can involve in social action to solve its own problems.  

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