4.2.9 - social action

Question 1

Social action

Answer 1

• Is about doing something to create a positive change.
• Is about advocacy for change.
• Can be on an individual, group, national, or global level.

Question 2

Why take social action?

Answer 2

• Help less fortunate
• Raise awareness
• Eliminate discrimination
• Prevent harm to the environment
• Preserve something of historic/social value

Question 3

Ways we can take social action

Answer 3

• Donations
• Boycott
• Petitions
• Raise awareness
• Volunteer

Question 4

Fairtrade

Answer 4

Goal is to help producers in low + middle -income countries achieve better trading conditions + to promote sustainable farming.

Question 5

Effect of fairtrade/relationship to social action

Answer 5

• Purchasing fairtrade certified products = help reduce poverty, help end child labour.
• Supermarkets stock because consumers wrote + requested it (eg. of taking social action).