social conscience
noun
: caring or concern about important social issues
I can't work for a company that has no social conscience.
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Values have been especially important to Cook, whose public engagement and profound social conscience have been crucial to the company’s direction for years.
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David Phelan, Forbes.com, 20 Apr. 2026
For over 80 years, Superman has been a champion of the oppressed, the epitome of social conscience, and an absolute supporter of democracy and responsible citizenship.
—Samantha Baskind, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 July 2025
The company, founded by Susan Albert Loewenberg and seven other women in 1974 during the heyday of the liberation movements, was formed with a strong social conscience.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2025
The show also had a social conscience — children of all races were welcome in Skipper Chuck’s bleachers, an unprecedented policy for a southern TV station in the late 1950s.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 2 Apr. 2025
Those acts embraced punk rock’s social conscience, addressing the world in song in a manner akin to the folk tradition of artists like Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and Phil Ochs (who was arrested during the infamous 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago).
—Jim Ryan, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
Solar power at this point seems to attract users from those who are affluent enough to have their social conscience trump their pocketbook.
—IEEE Spectrum, 4 Oct. 2010
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David Phelan, Forbes.com, 20 Apr. 2026
For over 80 years, Superman has been a champion of the oppressed, the epitome of social conscience, and an absolute supporter of democracy and responsible citizenship.
—Samantha Baskind, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 July 2025
The company, founded by Susan Albert Loewenberg and seven other women in 1974 during the heyday of the liberation movements, was formed with a strong social conscience.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2025
The show also had a social conscience — children of all races were welcome in Skipper Chuck’s bleachers, an unprecedented policy for a southern TV station in the late 1950s.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 2 Apr. 2025
Those acts embraced punk rock’s social conscience, addressing the world in song in a manner akin to the folk tradition of artists like Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and Phil Ochs (who was arrested during the infamous 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago).
—Jim Ryan, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
Solar power at this point seems to attract users from those who are affluent enough to have their social conscience trump their pocketbook.
—IEEE Spectrum, 4 Oct. 2010
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“Social conscience.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/social%20conscience. Accessed 8 May. 2026.
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