Noun
a vaguely specified social event
Source: WordNetLiterature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use. Ezra Pound
The new Christian ideal of life did not at first alter the outward forms of art, but did alter its social function. Arnold Hauser
Music is the only religion that delivers the goods. All music is good. It fulfills a social function. It's like wallpaper to your lifestyle. It defines what you are. Frank Zappa
I don't know if you ever say to yourself that you want to be an actress. It eventually becomes a social function - you are an actress and you make a living out of it, but at the beginning it's more a matter of how to survive, or how to exist in a certain way. Isabelle Huppert
I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons. Angela Davis
Ideology ... is therefore necessarily false; its social function is not to give agents a true knowledge of the social structure but simply to insert them as it were into their practical activities. Terry Eagleton