[1] Social philosophers emphasize understanding the social contexts for political, legal, moral and cultural questions, and the development of novel theoretical frameworks, from social ontology to care ethics to cosmopolitan theories of democracy, natural law, human rights, gender equity and global justice.
[2] There is often a considerable overlap between the questions addressed by social philosophy and ethics or value theory.
[3][4] Some social philosophy is concerned with identity, and defining strata that categorize society, for example race and gender.
[5] It also looks at the concepts of property, rights, and authority, examining actions in terms of both ethical values and their wider social effect; it applies situational ethics to broader political concepts.
Sociology of language considers communication in the context of social relations, for example speech acts or performative utterances are social actions in themselves.