What is a social climate?

Question

i am reading a book and i have to answer questions about it. one of the questions askes "how does the setting (time period, location, and social climate) influence the events in the story?" i would like a description of what a social climate is.

Answer 1

In sociology and politics, the term "climate" is used in reference to a concept of aggregate mood within a society, by analogy to weather and temperature :

  A social climate is what the society's overall feelings were in regard to what is happening at that time. ( That's what I got from the definition of it.)

Are you doing Sociology? Go to Wikipedia and type in Social Climate in the search bar and it will give you a list of sociology stuff.



Good luck!

Answer 2

Social climate is how the majority of people feel about certain situations involving human activity. Examples of modern social climate would be g*y rights, abortion, gun rights, right to work, the war in Iraq.  In the 50's and 60's, social climate was centered around communism, teen s*x, and pregnancy, divorce, school Integration