The last one, trust me every other answer here is so totally wrong.
The answer is "social contract theory".
It is the willful understanding among people by which, as per any of different speculations, as of Hobbes, Locke, or Rousseau, sorted out society is carried into being and contributed with the privilege to anchor shared security and welfare or to direct the relations among its individuals.
Muckrakers were the journalists who uncovered corruption in businesses and government.
I think would be Antioch in Syria