Should Corporations Care?

The concept of social responsibility has been around since the advent of capitalism. This idea explores the level of involvement a corporation has in dealing with community issues. Due to recent increasing global trends in income inequality, environmental damage, and human rights violations, many consumers are beginning to wonder if large corporations bare some responsibility, and the concept has re-emerged. More specifically if companies should be expected to be socially responsible. A student of Sumner would argue that social responsibility is too broad of a term and the very system of the…