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Social responsibility is an ethical concept in which a person works and cooperates with other people and organizations for the benefit of the community. [1] An organization can demonstrate social responsibility in several ways, for instance, by donating, encouraging volunteerism, using ethical hiring procedures, and making changes that benefit ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay called for staunch individualism. "Self-Reliance" is an 1841 essay written by American transcendentalist philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson.It contains the most thorough statement of one of his recurrent themes: the need for each person to avoid conformity and false consistency, and follow his or her own instincts and ideas.
Social consciousness or social awareness, is collective consciousness shared by individuals within a society. [1] Social consciousness is linked to the collective self-awareness and experience of collectively shared social identity. [2] From this viewpoint, social consciousness denotes conscious awareness of being part of an interrelated ...
Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory is a framework for cross-cultural psychology, developed by Geert Hofstede. It shows the effects of a society's culture on the values of its members, and how these values relate to behavior, using a structure derived from factor analysis. [1] Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory.
Social equality is a state of affairs in which all individuals within society have equal rights, liberties, and status, possibly including civil rights, freedom of expression, autonomy, and equal access to certain public goods and social services. Social equality requires the absence of legally enforced social class or caste boundaries and the ...
Social justice is justice in relation to the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a society where individuals' rights are recognized and protected. [1] In Western and Asian cultures, the concept of social justice has often referred to the process of ensuring that individuals fulfill their societal roles and receive their ...
Individualism makes the individual its focus, [1] and so starts "with the fundamental premise that the human individual is of primary importance in the struggle for liberation". [4] Individualism is often defined in contrast to communitarianism, collectivism and corporatism. [5][6] Individualism has been used as a term denoting " [t]he quality ...
A social conscience is "a sense of responsibility or concern for the problems and injustices of society". [1]While our conscience is related to moral conduct in our day-to-day lives with respect to individuals, social conscience is concerned with the broader institutions of society and the gap that we may perceive between the sort of society that should exist and the one that does exist.