The phrase "social imperative" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to an obligation or need to do something that is socially important or necessary. For example, you might say, "There is a social imperative to protect the environment."
And contrary to the social imperative, they all seem to coexist in relative bliss".
It's an economic imperative as well as a social imperative to crack our housing crisis.
If profligacy has been their social imperative, its moral corollary is unflinching tolerance.
"Apart from the moral or social imperative, it's now tied to financial performance incentives".
Foundry industry produces a huge quantity of foundry sand; its management has become an environmental, economic and social imperative since it is now considered as dangerous waste.
Mass literacy acquires a new importance in these nations of Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and the establishment of universal primary education becomes a social imperative.
There are all kinds of social imperatives commanding us not to — just as there are all kinds of social imperatives restricting the biological imperative to reproduce.
Michael Bloomberg now has at least limited authority to integrate this knowledge with the social imperatives of the dense urban core at a pivotal moment.
The author attributes this to a range of social imperatives including the "intensifying application of knowledge and rationality to human affairs".
Everyone, especially in Jerusalem, where religious, historical, cultural and social imperatives collide, has a gremlin inside whispering that it may not be safe.
In order to reconfigure global socio-economic systems to be compatible with social imperatives and planetary boundaries, a transition towards sustainable development is necessary.
