单词 | social consciousness |
释义 | > as lemmassocial consciousness social consciousness n. awareness of and concern for the problems and injustices that affect society; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social attitudes > philanthropy > [noun] > social conscience social conscience1795 social consciousness1848 1848 N. Brit. Rev. Aug. 274/2 What might be called social consciousness is that which distinguishes the civilized communities of modern times. 1897 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 3 343 As we say in sociological language, there was a very low degree of social consciousness. 1955 T. Williams in S. J. Kunitz 20th Cent. Authors Suppl. I. 1088/1 We suddenly discovered there were two kinds of people, the rich and the poor, and that we belonged more to the latter... It was the beginning of the social-consciousness which I think has marked most of my writing. 2000 N.Y. Times 31 Dec. ii. 1/2 In the 1990's, Rage Against the Machine..gave hope to anyone convinced of pop music's ability to raise social consciousness. < as lemmas |
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