Corporate Social Responsibility (Sociology).

Corporations have engaging in corporate social responsibility activities that portray them as caring and contributing members of the communities in which they are located. To understand why corporations would be interested in taking such actions, and why the public appears a bit skeptical toward such activities, one needs to have some understanding of how corporations have evolved in American society. This article provides a history of corporations and discusses whether corporations have been more favorably socialized into American culture and communities.