WHAT IS A SOCIAL ACTION?
what are social actions about?
Social action is the practice of taking action usually as part of an organized group or community to create positive change. Sometimes social action can lead to profound social change, as in the case of the Civil Rights Movement; sometimes social action seeks more limited and specific changes – the preservation of an open space, for example, or better pay for a specific group of workers.
Social Actions can range from many things, some people pick topics which effect just the community around them and others cover topics that are worldwide.
Social action, by its nature, is often practiced by those who either traditionally have little power in society – the poor, minorities, or people with disabilities, for example – but it may also be used by any group that feels its concerns are being ignored. By working together, members of these groups can exercise power collectively because of their numbers, using the media, their votes, boycotts, and other types of social, political, and economic pressure to convince those in power to rethink their positions.
Topics that effect many people around the world could be something like bullying, hundreds and thousands of people experience bulling in some form throught their life and it can effect them so badly they think of taking their own life, or it knocks their confidence and they don’t go out or talk to people or experience the life they deserve just becase of one person. Bullying will always exsist but with people’s help we can change, change the world and change the way people live their lifes. Nobody should be scared to go to school or online just because they don’t know what the bully is going to do next and it needs to stop. There are thousands of campaigns about bullying and it only takes one person to care for change to start.
TYPES OF SOCIAL ACTIONS.
Something less worldwide could be the presevation of a building in their area, it could have significant memory for them or people might not want something new to be built there, and If someone starts a petition it could mean the change the keeps the building there.
1. Rational actions are actions which are taken because it leads to a valued goal, but with no thought of its consequences and often without consideration of the appropriateness of the means chosen to achieve it (‘the end justifies the means’). Value rational or Instrumentally rational social action is divided into two groups: rational consideration and rational orientation. Rational consideration is when secondary results are taken into account rationally. Rational orientation is being able to recognize and understand certain mediums under common conditions. 2. Instrumental action are actions which are planned and taken after evaluating the goal in relation to other goals, and after thorough consideration of various means (and consequences) to achieve it. An example would be a high school student preparing for life as a lawyer. The student knows that in order to get into college, he/she must take the appropriate tests and fill out the proper forms to get into college and then do well in college in order to get into law school and ultimately realize his/her goal of becoming a lawyer. If the student chooses not to do well in college, he/she knows that it will be difficult to get into law school and ultimately achieve the goal of being a lawyer.
why we need social actions. Social Action is needed to make topics and situations recognised and made aware to a range of different people, they get people to take action against bad habits that may or may not effect them and change their attitudes toward the habits and so they take action against them whether this is a local issue such as fly tipping to a global issue such as recycling. Without social action most of the neighbourhoods or even world who don't keep interests in the News or Internet etc. will be clueless to the amount of stuff which is affecting other people every day. Such as Knife Crime, Smoking, Alcohol. Social Action is there to make people think and to help implant a moral into peoples heads so that they avoid breaking the boundaries of what and what not they can do.
research into social action. The annual Youth Social Action survey conducted by Ipsos MORI shows 42 per cent of 10- to 20-year-olds in the UK took part in meaningful social action in 2015, a slight rise on the 40 per cent in 2014, but involvement varies depending on a range of factors. The research shows young people in families from the top two socio-economic groups A and B are more likely to participate in social action (49 per cent), but the rate falls among those in less affluent group C1 (42 per cent) and groups C2, D and E (38 per cent). The survey, launched on the second anniversary of the #iwill campaign, was commissioned by Cabinet Office, and used data from interviews with 2,021 young people to estimate figures for the whole of the UK. Charlotte Hill, chief executive of Step Up To Serve, the charity behind the #iwill campaign said: “We all want to live in a world where people support each other and play an active part in making their community stronger. “We need to embed this into the lives of young people growing up across the UK. So many young people want to make a difference and play their part, but currently aren’t able to.” Other findings collected from the survey show seven in 10 young people are interested in taking part in social action in the future, but 41 per cent of non-participants do not know how or have never considered it. Schools and colleges were also seen as the most common route into social action with nearly three-quarters of 10- to 20-year-olds stating they got involved through their school or college, while 30 per cent got involved through family, 24 per cent through friends, and 18 per cent through structured programmes. Fundraising, volunteering for charity, and supporting people in the community also remained the top three activities carried out by young people.
Social action is raising awareness to people who don't know what their local, national or global community is being affected by and hoping that the community will do something about it and hopefully if one person takes action then maybe that persons friends will take action and their friends, friends making a massive community cycle to help get the message across and help solve an important issue to many people.
ride for wildlife EDUCATION FOR ALL
no h8
action on elder abuse
protect endangered species
stop bullying