Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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A social conscience is "a sense of responsibility or concern for the problems and injustices of society".
While our conscience is related to our 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 real society that does exist.
The term social conscience has been used in conjunction with everything from investing, to art, antiques, and politics.
Usage examples of "social conscience".
You wouldn't want to give support to the widespread impression that you are a man devoid of social conscience, who feels no concern for the welfare of his fellows and works for nothing but his own profit.
The sherif had a son named Faisal who was a rarity among Arab leaders, a man who had a social conscience and vision.
That is not to say that Reade's social conscience was not sound so far as it went, and in several minor ways he probably helped to educate public opinion.
Heirs who are light in a social conscience try to refuse their bequest.
Mr Pettigrew misguidedly shut the door, for once acting with a degree of social conscience he hadn't intended.
Mr Pettigrew misguidedly shut the door, for once acting with a degree of social conscience he hadn't in.
Even then, he had a strong social conscience, and he wrote poems and essays about the less fortunate in society.
It was as if his social conscience, his concern for the plight of humanity at large, the universal and collective pity he felt for all mankind, had been breached in some unspeakably personal way by the inveterate triviality and egoism of Mrs Biggs.
Perhaps, she said, but only after I detect a vast improvement in your social conscience, and certainly not before I have obtained my master's degree.