Responsibility, Advocacy, and Activism: Explicating and Mapping Constructs

This first chapter lays the groundwork for those that follow. Most critically, the authors explicate the concepts of social responsibility and sociopolitical advocacy in relation to one another, as well as a host of similar constructs and subconstructs across the prosocial communication landscape. This chapter aims to define and delimit crucial terms and practices while exploring how they have generally been studied in previous scholarship, particularly within the public relations literature. They close by highlighting the major themes discussed by this book’s contributors and the important implications of their work.