The Offshore Outsourcing A Social Problems Process Model

The definition of outsourcing is “(of a company or organization) to purchase (goods) or subcontract (services) from an outside supplier or source.” In laymen’s terms, it’s when companies hire foreign workers to do the jobs of U.S. workers, simply because a bigger profit can be made. Using Joel Best’s Social Problems Process Model, one can analyze the different aspects of social problems and apply these observations to Outsourcing. This model’s analysis may show that Outsourcing is a social problem that needs to be resolved in some way.

Outsourcing and Best’s Model

Stage 1: Claimsmaking Outsourcing has provided means for many people to oppose it. In an article titled “The Offshore Outsourcing of American Jobs: A Greater Threat Than Terrorism”,

However, only big businesses are being represented in this claim. Laborers and individuals are not even mentioned. Perdue’s statements include a conservative and non-impartial mindset.

An article/interview from Democracy Now, titled “Workers at Bain-Owned Illinois Factory Bring Fight to Save Their Outsourced Jobs to Romney and RNC,” is more focused on the morality of outsourcing, than the fiscal effects. The two people being interviewed believe that high-paying jobs should be kept in the United States; and that outsourcing is destroying the American Dream. The people being interviewed by Democracy Now are experiencing, first-hand, the effects that outsourcing has on workers as individuals. This interview is to help show the effects of outsourcing from a worker’s viewpoint. It balances the positive aspects that outsourcing has on large businesses and “the economy.” The two people interviewed by Democracy Now are merely a minute fraction of the people whose jobs are in danger, and this liberal perspective will hopefully spread awareness of that.

Stage 3: Public

Looking at outsourcing from a ‘subjectivist’ standpoint, one would see that many American workers lose their jobs because of outsourcing and have a very difficult time trying to find another. However, if one were to observe this through as a non-American¬¬¬ subjectivist, they would see that America is being friendly and providing millions of jobs for overseas workers. Supposedly, whether or not outsourcing is a social problem subjectively, it will depend on whether you’re looking at it from an American worker’s view or a foreign