Social Community or Actions

Multiple aspects of relevant community and social action theories

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Abstract

In sociology, social community or actions are referred as the act, which includes actions as
well as the reactions of the agents or individuals. Max Weber mentions that an action is
considered as social, if all the acting individuals take account of others behavior and orient
that in their course. The term social also means the individual interaction within the society,
and also covers the economic, ethical, cultural, and political aspects (Rengasamy, 2000).
Siddiqui (1984) describes social action as the mass, which moves for the betterment through
the propaganda as well as social legislation, and tries to bring the change in the clients social
environment. Social action has certain assumptions, which are in the context of the current
structure of power, the nature of the mechanism for social welfare delivery, growth of the
economy, in context of the welfare state, human problems, and human rights (Homan, 2011).
Social action is not alien to the concept of India; rather it was attributed from the west. The
social action history in India is back to the eighteen and nineteenth centuries, during that
period all the reformers were fought against the various evil practices like child marriage,
sati, devadasi system, as well as for widowhood practices for women of India (Siddiqui,
1984). During that period, Mahatma Gandhi along with his principles of non-violence used
the social actions for enhancing or raising the womens status and of the status of Dalits and
fought for bringing changes in the Indian social relationships.