The phrase "a societal consensus" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing an agreement or shared opinion among members of a society on a particular issue or topic.
Example: "The new policy was implemented after a societal consensus was reached regarding its benefits for the community."
Alternatives: "a social agreement" or "a collective understanding".
Open, receptive and ongoing dialogue between the interested and informed parties is the way to bring about a societal consensus that can help mould that future.
"It is an issue, because we have not yet come to a societal consensus on the moral or legal status of the embryo".
When governments fought inflation with free-market reforms they both forged and reflected a societal consensus in favour of economic stability.
Thus, in the long run, the remedy for false, involuntary, or unreliable confessions lies in better police training, closer judicial scrutiny of police interrogation methods, and the development of a societal consensus against modern variations of ancient tortures.
Coups do not take place in countries where democratic institutions are strong, where parliamentary supervision, judicial control and transparency provided by a free media prevent abuses of power and where there is a societal consensus against the use of violence to solve problems.
But despite increased attention to ethical issues involving animals, nothing approaching a societal consensus on their moral status has emerged.
In the FoP and Dutch food cases, the healthy food criteria appear to enjoy a broad societal consensus, making them societally representative guidelines.
They stressed that any tinkering with human germline cells should come only after a "broad societal consensus" that such editing is a good idea.
There was a rough societal consensus about how to handle these problems: Keep them quiet.
That would allow time to assess risks and benefits, they said, and develop a "broad societal consensus" on the work.
We operate from a basic societal consensus that it isn't the responsibility of individual citizens to balance the government's budget.
