Approaching the concept of Social Responsibility will be the subject of discussion in this article. The ultimate goal is to try to make a theoretical approach to the concept, as a preamble to the contribution of a definition of Social Responsibility from the thought of Academic Team for Research in Social Responsibility GRS - EAM. In this paper, we share the methodology that allowed the construction of the concept of Social Responsibility, since the contribution of authors and institutions that facilitated their thinking and rethinking so as to create an appropriate definition for the department of Quindio.